One dead when pickup and semi collide in Wadena County

October 30, 2016 at 7:28PM

A pickup and a semitrailer truck collided Sunday morning at an intersection near Eagle Bend in north-central Minnesota, killing the driver of the pickup truck, the State Patrol said.

The accident happened at 9:06 a.m. on Hwy. 71 at 380th Street in Wadena County. The patrol said the pickup was headed east on 380th Street and collided with a semi going north on Hwy. 71. The semi left the road and rolled, but the driver, a 51-year-old man from New Hope, was not injured.

The driver of the pickup died; the name, age and hometown have not been released.

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