WARD COUNTY, N.D. (KVRR) – A 21-year-old man from Minot is dead after a single-vehicle crash in the early morning hours of August 2. According to the North Dakota Highway Patrol, at approximately 2:57 A.M., a 2021 Tesla Model Y was traveling northbound on the US Highway 83 Bypass near the 4th Avenue NW overpass in Minot. The vehicle, traveling…
MORTON COUNTY, N.D. (KVRR) – A Mandan man is dead after a single-vehicle crash early on the morning of July 5. The North Dakota Highway Patrol says at approximately 2:40 A.M., a white 2015 Dodge Ram 3500 was traveling eastbound on County Road 139A. The driver, a 51-year-old man from Mandan, did not take a curve in the roadway, causing…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — This week marks the unofficial start of summer travel and the start where traffic fatalities tend to rise. But according to the North Dakota Department of Transportation, those numbers have been at its lowest in over 24 years. “A large drop from one hundred and six fatalities the year before in 2023. Like I said, the…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) — Starting in August, anyone driving or riding in a passenger vehicle will need to buckle up in North Dakota. Governor Doug Burgum signed the bill into law after the legislature passed a primary seatbelt bill. The law requires everyone in a vehicle to be buckled up. Under current secondary law, a driver has to be pulled…
BUFFALO, N.D. — An 11-year-old boy is dead and a 14-year-old girl is at Sanford in Fargo after rolling their Polaris Ranger. The crash happened around 3 Sunday afternoon just east of Buffalo, North Dakota. North Dakota Highway Patrol says Owen Steckler turned and lost control going into a ditch. He was thrown and died at the scene. Owen was…
FARGO, N.D. – They say about every three weeks in the summer, they see a fatal crash involving a teen driver, where the rest of the year it’s about five weeks. People with AAA say now is a good time for parents to model safe driving behavior and make sure their teens are driving safely. Some of the risky behaviors…
PARK RIVER, ND — A man killed in a crash near Park River, North Dakota has been identified. He is 35-year-old Bradley Lund of Pisek, North Dakota. The crash happened around 10:15 Saturday morning two and a half miles south of town on 134th Avenue Northeast. Highway Patrol says Lund’s SUV left the road, entered the ditch and then a…
FARGO, N.D. — Some drivers are spending their weekend off the road to go back to the basics. KVRR’s Danielle Church tells how an initiative between the North Dakota State Council and Highway Patrol is helping to keep drivers Alive at 25. When it comes to the rules of the road, North Dakota Highway Patrol trooper William Brown says there’s…
ROLLA, N.D. — We now know two of the three people injured Friday morning after their car rolled over on Highway 30 in Rolla. The North Dakota Highway Patrol says 19-year-old Calvin Davis of Fargo lost control of a pickup while driving on 96th Street Northeast. Authorities say Davis and 27-year-old Justin Brunelle of Belcourt were ejected from the car. They…
KIDDER CO., ND — A one-vehicle rollover has claimed the life of a woman from Strasburg, North Dakota. The highway patrol says the 38-year-old woman lost control of her minivan on I-94 north of Tappen around 7:30 this morning. She was thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was not wearing a seatbelt. This crash remains…
