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Anybody local know anything about this?
We know this mans mother.

A Bozeman man is dead after an early morning car crash just outside of Manhattan.

The Gallatin County Sheriff's Office said the single-vehicle wreck was found by a sheriff's deputy at 1:36 a.m. Sunday near mile marker 286.

Officials said Gabriel Charles Schiers, 36, of Bozeman was driving a 2001 Subaru Legacy.

Montana Highway Patrol told NBC Montana that Schiers drifted into the median, then overcorrected. They said the vehicle rolled and Schiers was ejected. Officials said he was not wearing a seat belt and was pronounced dead on arrival.

Montana Highway Patrol is investigating.

Single vehicle rollover with ejection resulting in a fatality is an all too common occurrence here in MT.

Sorry for the man's family.

A friend that is a client there hasn't heard anything.

My accountant is from Manhattan and said he heard about the accident. Nothing is being said by sheriff right not but the thought is he possibly fell asleep and the usual question whether alcohol was a factor or not has not been answered yet.

That's all too common. In a rollover, the safest place to be is inside the car. So many deaths like this are preventable by just using the seatbelt.

I feel oddly uncomfortable if I don't have my seatbelt on.

Seatbelts save way more than they harm... used to read that all the time.

Then joined first responders and I've seen it with my own eyes...

I just dont' think they should be required by law, only by intelligence.

Drivers who don't use belts are job security for EMT's & ER crews.

I have unbuckled my seatbelt at least 3 times which resulted in me falling down.

Translated, 3 different times I have been in an accident where the vehicle came to rest on its top or side and my belt kept me in place. Thank my boss in college who required us to wear seatbelts whenever we were driving work outfits and really started instilling that in me. Now my kids freak if anyone in the car is not buckled up.

Maybe some driver's ed is in order? Just sayin...

After buckling, tell yourself : shiny side up, dirty side down......

Maybe. Maybe not.

Did you ever consider that my post stated "I have been in an accident..." No where did I say I was the driver.

And maybe it has something to do with the fact that I drive 5 times more than the average person per year and a majority of those miles are from January through April all through the northern Rockies and northern Great Plains mostly at night.

Wait till you see what's left of a teenage girl after she tumbles through an open door (doors typically open on a rollover) and the car rolls over on her. I'm quite the libertarian on most things but a seatbelt law is a no-brainer.

From reading what rost does I think there's a chance he mighta seen some of that type of thing..?

If it wasn't for alcohol and not wearing seat belts, we would have a much higher population in this state.

Most people do not think that a vehicle rolling over should be something dangerous, as it seems like a relatively slow thing going on. Yet in reality these accidents cause a huge amount of centripetal (or is it centrifugal?) force as the vehicle rotates; generally enough force to open the doors and toss an untethered person out. And a person flying uncontrolled through the air does not walk away like on TV but instead usually dies from impacting the ground or something solid. Count me in as a seatbelt user.

Not to mention the fact that you become a flying object inside the vehicle making multiple impacts with the inside of the vehicle as it tumbles and rapidly decelerates. It's a bad deal all the way around.

I knew one experienced Texas Highway Patrolman, who said he had never once unbuckled a dead person...

In my 25 years as a LEO I investigated many upon many vehicle accidents. They are very violent in nature. I can honestly say that every crash I investigated where an ejection occurred, so did a death of that person. Seatbelts
do save lives..

I used to work as a uniformed state trooper.

I don't think any person over 18 years of age should required by law to wear a seat belt, or a helmet, I think it is extremely dangerous not to do. Under 18, most kids don't have enough life experience to make smart decisions.

It is your choice, and I have seem a BUNCH of fatal crashes, mostly one vehicle rollovers that the occupants would have probably walked away with minor scratches/injuries, if they had been buckled up.

But that was their choice. I believe that was what killed Noveske.

Thought Noveske left the road on a curve and hit an immovable object, namely a large tree.