by Robert Nolte
HUNTLEY — A Billings couple’s car slid off an icy Pryor Creek Road Tuesday evening and came to rest against a barbed wire fence that kept them from plunging down a steep embankment.
“What turned out to be a few scrapes on their car could have been much more serious — possibly a roll-over with injuries,” said the investigating Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Buck O’Neill.
As it turned out, Charles and Roxy Jensen were helped out of their car as it rested against the fencing by Sheriff’s Deputy David Muhlbeier and local neighbors.
“They were seat-belted in,” said O’Neill. “Had Mr. Jensen not had his seat belt on, the momentum of him being thrown about in the car could have caused the car to roll through the fence, overturn and proceed on down the hill.”
If that had happened, there could have been serious injuries or deaths if the victims had been thrown from the car. 
To keep the car from plunging through the fence, Worden Fire Department responders tied a rope from the stuck car and lashed it to a truck belonging to one of the volunteer firefighters.
Trooper O’Neill said the car eventually was towed away from the fence by a wrecker and the Jensens drove back to their Billings home. They were not issued a citation but O’Neill said the county road department was called to come and sand down the ice sheet that had formed from the below-zero temperatures at the intersection of Yellowstone Trail and Pryor Creek Road.
