GALLATIN COUNTY — On Wednesday, a sheriff’s deputy was nearly hit head-on along Frontage Road. That got me thinking…just how safe is Frontage Road and what precautions can people take?

“Drivers are flying around here,” said Becky Clements, who lives and works in Manhattan, just a few blocks off Frontage Road.

“I feel like it’s dangerous, I feel like it’s scary,” she said.

Clements says she uses Frontage Road nearly every other day to get to Belgrade and notices people speeding.

“It’s 45 going out of town here but people are already speeding up to 65 or 70 at that point as they’re headed out of town,” said Clements.

Clement’s scary experiences with this road don’t stop at speed. She says her son’s car broke down along Frontage Road last summer.

“There’s no shoulder, and with everybody

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