CHARLOTTE, N.C.–Ryan Newman has been released from a Florida hospital two days after a frightening crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500. He had been hospitalized since Monday night. Roush Fenway Racing says the 42-year-old driver was fully alert and walking around the hospital in the hours before he left. The team posted photos with Newman and his…
HAMDEN TOWNSHIP, Minn.–A Becker County man was severely injured in a snowmobile crash on Wednesday. The Becker County Sheriff’s Office received a call of a crash two miles north of Audubon at approximately 4:30 p.m. Authorities say 35-year-old Jeffrey Gillespie and his 15-year-old son were snowmobiling when Gillespie hit a snow embankment and slowed down. The snowmobile kicked up snow…
FARGO, N.D.–The North Dakota Highway Patrol has responded to over 40 vehicle related incidents since 7 a.m. on Tuesday. They say they have received calls for over 20 crashes and more than 20 vehicles sliding off the road in the metro. No serious injuries have been reported as of 3 p.m. NDHP is urging drivers to be cautions as the…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — For the second time in about a week, a vehicle drives into the path of a slow-moving train in Grand Forks. This time it was a semi driven by 31-year-old Travis Bitker of Bemidji. Police say Bitker was driving through the yard of the State Mill at the time of the crash. The BNSF train was…
GRAND FORKS, N.D.–A two-vehicle crash three miles west of Grand Forks left two people injured. The crash occurred at the intersection of 12th Avenue NE and 16th Street NE at approximately 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Police say the driver, 26-year-old Tanner Ault, and his passenger, 21-year-old Emmitt Ault, were traveling southbound when they failed to see a stop sign and…
WADENA COUNTY, Minn.–A three-year-old child was unresponsive after a vehicle rear-ended a snowplow on County Road 23 in Wadena County. The Wadena Sheriff’s Department responded to the scene and found the driver and an unresponsive child awaiting medical attention in a different vehicle. The driver told authorities that he did not see the snowplow prior to the collision. All parties…
FARGO, N.D.–Fargo Police are searching for a man who fled the scene after crashing a vehicle on Thursday. Officers responded to a single-rollover crash in the 1400 block of 42nd Street South at approximately 6:55 a.m. A witness told them a mid 20’s, white man wearing jeans and a dark hoodie got out of the vehicle and ran northbound. Police…
FREDONIA, N.D. — A young Kulm, North Dakota man is dead after a one-vehicle crash just west of Fredonia. North Dakota Highway Patrol has identified the victim as 20-year-old Garrett Nelson. They say Nelson was driving on Highway 13 around 11:30 last night when he began to leave the road and overcorrected. Nelson’s vehicle rolled and he was thrown. He…
MANDAN, N.D.–A Harlow’s school bus was involved in a crash six miles north of Mandan on Tuesday. The school bus was crossing County Road 140 from James Drive to Terrier Lane when the driver failed to yield to oncoming traffic and was struck by a minivan. The bus driver and seven kids on board were uninjured. The two occupants in…
FARGO, N.D.–The Fargo Police Department is asking for information that may help identify the driver involved in a hit and run crash. The crash happened at the intersection of 48 Street S. and 13 Avenue S. at approximately 10:05 a.m. on Friday. The driver has been described as a 17 to 18-year-old lighter-skinned African American man. He is approximately 5’10”,…
