Numerous crashes reported as spring snowstorm begins

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – Minnesota State Patrol troopers are responding to several crashes, rollovers and jackknifed semis as snow moves through on Thursday morning.

Sgt. Jesse Grabow says troopers are responding on Interstate-94 from Barnesville to Rothsay, and throughout the region.

“What the Minnesota State Patrol and local first responders are seeing is slippery roads. Snow accumulation and some ice underneath making it difficult for a number of motorists that are just driving too fast for some obvious poor conditions,” Grabow said.

One person was taken to the hospital after a crash near Glyndon just before 6 a.m.

The State Patrol says a car and semi were both going west on I-94 when they collided. Tristan Landberg, 20 of Pelican Rapids, was taken to a Fargo hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The semi driver was not hurt.

Grabow urges people to travel with care.

“We need everybody to slow it down, increase their following distance and just make sure they’re wearing a seatbelt.”

He adds, be sure to give troopers, tow trucks and snow plows extra space to safely work.