Weather may have contributed to a pair of wrecks that left three people dead Monday.
Two crashes on snowy, icy roads in Minnesota leave three people dead
The crashes happened in Crow Wing and Pennington counties Monday morning.
The Minnesota Star Tribune
November 26, 2024 at 8:14PM
The first happened about 7:20 a.m. on Hwy. 210 at County Road 142 in Oak Lawn Township near the east gate of the Brainerd Airport. The driver of a Dodge Ram pickup truck traveling west on Hwy. 210 slid across the centerline and hit a westbound Honda, the State Patrol said.
The vehicles collided head-on and came to rest in the south ditch, the patrol said.
A 67-year-old woman in the Honda, identified by the patrol as Pamela Beebe, died at the scene. The driver of the Ram, 47-year-old Donald Want, of Deerwood, Minn., was taken to a hospital with non-critical injuries, the patrol said. An initial report indicated both drivers had died.
Two people died in a single-vehicle rollover about 8 a.m. in Bray Township in Pennington County. The driver, 68-year-old Tina Klein from Grand Forks, N.D., and a passenger, 62-year-old Charles Hill, also from Grand Forks, died in the crash in the 325000 block of Center Street, the State Patrol said.
Snow- and ice-covered roads may have been a factor in both crashes, the patrol said.
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