Two killed in separate crashes in Crow Wing County

State Patrol reports there were two fatal crash Saturday morning in Crow Wing County.

August 7, 2022 at 3:50PM

A 26-year-old motorcyclist was killed Saturday when a St. Paul man hauling a boat trailer pulled into the path of the motorcyclist in Crow Wing County.

The Minnesota State Patrol reported that the crash happened around 7:20 p.m. on Hwy. 371 near Nashway Road.

A Jeep Commander driven by George Lentsch, 62, was eastbound on Nashway Road with a boat trailer when he attempted to cross the highway and pulled into the path of Alex Alden Nelson, of Akeley, Minn., the patrol said.

In a separate crash Saturday morning also in Crow Wing County, the patrol reported that 17-year-old Sebastien Jakob Blondo of Kettle River, Minn., died when his Jeep struck another vehicle on Hwy. 210 near County Road 32.

Road conditions were wet at the time of the crash around 9:30 a.m., the patrol said. Blondo was eastbound on the highway and hit a westbound Lincoln driven by Curtis Dean Watson, 75, of Aitkin, Minn., who was airlifted to a St. Cloud hospital with life-threatening injuries.

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Kim Hyatt reports on North Central Minnesota. She previously covered Hennepin County courts.

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