GARFIELD, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – A Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy was injured while providing traffic control for a crash on Interstate 94 in west central Minnesota Sunday night. The deputy was parked with his squad car’s emergency lights activated and several flares placed on the road where a vehicle slid off the road and into the median. While the deputy was…
MAPLETON, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – Two people were hurt in a crash two miles west of Mapleton that included three semis and an SUV Sunday night. It happened around 11:30 p.m. in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 94. The Highway Patrol says a semi lost control on the ice and jackknifed. The truck went into the median with the trailer in…
WYNDMERE, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – The Highway Patrol has released the names of adults involved in a crash 12 miles north of Wyndmere that injured five people including three children Friday evening. Tamara Eppler, 56 of Wyndmere, her passengers – a 7-year-old girl and two 6-year-old boys from Lisbon, and 56-year-old Troy Holsing of Horace were hurt . The crash happened…
WAHPETON, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – The state patrol will investigate a rollover where a Richland County Sheriff’s deputy suffered serious injuries north of Dwight. Sheriff Gary Ruhl says deputy Steve Nelk has broken ribs, a fractured back and other injuries. Ruhl says Nelk is hospitalized at Sanford Medical Center in Fargo and is expected to recover. Ruhl says Nelk was en…
EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – Three people were injured in an alcohol-related crash in northwest Minnesota Sunday. The crash happened at the intersection of Highways 2 and 220 just southeast of East Grand Forks around 4:30 p.m. The state patrol says 54-year-old Vicente Gomez of San Antonio, Texas was driving an SUV south when the vehicle crashed into an…
NEW YORK MILLS, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – The driver of a horse-drawn Amish buggy was seriously injured in a collision with a minivan near New York Mills. The Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office says 40-year-old Mabel Stauffer of New York Mills was hurt when the van driven by 85-year-old Allyn Jokela, also of New York Mills, ran into the back of…
POLK COUNTY, MINN. (KVRR-KFGO) – The Polk County, Minnesota Sheriff’s Office is investigating a two-vehicle T-bone crash near East Grand Forks on Sunday. The crash involved a truck hauling sugar beets and a pickup. A pickup was driven by 34-year-old Aurielle Webster, of East Grand Forks, driving north on a rural road when she failed to yield to the semi,…
HAWLEY, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – A Hawley woman was taken to a Fargo hospital after a collision between the car she was driving and a semi on Highway 10 in Hawley Friday morning. The State Patrol says Elizabeth Ahles, 74, didn’t yield for westbound traffic and turned onto the highway, causing the collision. Sanford AirMed responded to the scene along with…
PARK RAPIDS, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – A Wadena, Minnesota man is dead after a crash four miles south of Park Rapids Sunday night. The State Patrol says Thomas Kolden, 72, was driving a car and pulled out in front of a pickup in the intersection of U.S. Highway 71 and Minnesota Highway 87. The vehicles collided and both ended up in…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – There was a crash on westbound I-94 near the walkover bridge in Fargo shortly after 7:30 a.m. Thursday. One car was in the north ditch of the Interstate and a semi-truck a short distance beyond that point. The driver of the car tells KFGO News he was driving along when he was sideswiped by the semi. He…
