2 Fatal Crashes Reported on Snowy Minnesota Roads
The State Patrol says two fatal crashes occurred early Monday morning in northern Minnesota.
Both incidents involved vehicles losing control on slick roads as snow and ice created hazardous driving conditions, resulting in a rollover and head-on collision.
At 7:59 a.m. in Bray Township, just west of Thief River Falls, a 2007 Honda Pilot traveling eastbound on Center Street West left the roadway, rolled over, and came to rest in the westbound ditch.
The driver, 68-year-old Tina Annette Klein, and her passenger, 62-year-old Charles Roland Hill, both from Grand Forks, N.D., died in the crash. Both were wearing seatbelts.
Just 36 minutes earlier, at 7:23 a.m., a Dodge Ram 2500 and a Honda CR-V collided head-on in Oak Lawn Township just outside the Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport. Investigators say the driver of a westbound Dodge Ram lost control on the roadway, slid into eastbound lanes and struck the Honda CR-V head-on.
The driver of the Ram, 47-year-old Donald James Want, from Deerwood, Minn., suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the CR-V, 67-year-old Pamela Jean Beebe, from Brainerd, died at the hospital. The State Patrol said both were wearing seatbelts.
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