‘Either them or me’: Montana woman drives alone on Highway 191 when pickup tries to run her off the road. She reached for her pistol

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A white pickup truck has been terrorizing women on Montana highways. Lizette Lamb, 48, was driving from Roundup to Glasgow when she stopped at The Ole’ Mercantile Conoco station in Grass Range at 7:00 PM. She noticed a white pickup truck with no front license plate, and it gave her a bad feeling right away. After she got back on the road, she realized the same truck was tailgating her on Highway 191. Even when she pushed her speed to 85mph, the truck stayed so close that she could only see its grille, not the windshield. Near a hill, the driver tried to force her off the road by pulling up alongside her, but she sped up and avoided the crash. She was then able to see that there were two men inside the truck, which had dark-tinted windows. With no cell service to call 911, Lamb decided to show the men her pistol. According to the Daily Mail, they made a quick U-turn and drove away. “It’s either them or me, and I choose me,” she said. Her husband, Travis, reported the incident to the Phillips County Sheriff’s Office, where dispatchers told him they had received similar reports before. More women are coming forward with eerily similar stories involving a white pickup on isolated Montana roads Travis shared the story on Facebook to warn others and was not expecting the response he got. He received 36 accounts from other women who described nearly identical experiences in the same area.  The pattern is consistent: a white pickup, often a Ford, tailgating women on isolated, two-lane highways after dark. Dangerous highway incidents have been making headlines across the country, such as a deadly multi-vehicle pileup on a Georgia highway that killed seven people. Holly Pierce said she had a similar experience in December 2024 while driving on Highway 87. She said the truck repeatedly brake-checked her and a friend before racing alongside them, and she could not get around it even when driving over 100mph.  “It scares me to think what would happen if I would have stopped and said ‘Do you need help?'” Pierce said. “It was so crazy and I think about what happens to the women who haven’t gotten away.” Joni Hartford also encountered a similar vehicle while traveling north on Highway 87 around 7:30 or 8:00 PM. The truck was so close that she could only see the marker lamps on its tow mirrors. She eventually escaped by going around an Amish buggy on a blind hill, which gave her enough distance to get away. Hartford, who keeps a .380 pistol on her front seat, also noted that the victims appear to be targeted at gas stations. Highway safety concerns are not always about aggressive drivers, in a separate incident, a driver who fell asleep at the wheel after a 20-hour shift raised serious questions about road safety. Krista Manley, the owner of The Ole’ Mercantile, is going through her surveillance footage to try to identify the vehicle. She has not found the truck yet but says she fully believes the women who have come forward. “My default is to absolutely believe women and she was, she was rattled,” Manley said. The motive behind these incidents is still unknown, and local authorities are continuing to look into the reports. Women in the area are being urged to stay aware of their surroundings, especially on long, isolated stretches of road after dark.