accidents

MINNEAPOLIS -- A semi truck driver was killed Monday morning after he exited his vehicle and was hit by a truck on Interstate 35W. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, Robert J. Passow, 47, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, had gotten out of his truck after sideswiping an unidentified...

A Perham man who was hurt in a head-on car-train collision in town last Tuesday is in recovery at Sanford Health in Fargo, N.D. Alec Scott Bjerke, 21, was seriously injured when his car was struck by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe tanker train on the west side of Perham, near...

The National Transportation Safety Board has determined the probable cause of a fatal plane crash near Parkers Prairie. In February 2013, 41-year-old Adam Menze of Ottertail was on his way back from Illinois when his plane crashed in a rural driveway. Menze died in the crash....

A Perham man is OK after the trailer of a semi-truck he was driving was struck by a freight train on Friday. John Ruther, age 54, was pulling an empty grain hopper trailer behind his semi while crossing the railroad tracks at the intersection of Highway 10 and 505th Street, west...

CLOQUET, Minn. -- One person was killed in a crash Tuesday morning at the junction of Interstate 35 and Minnesota Highway 33 in Cloquet. The two-vehicle collision happened at 10:15 a.m. as a motorist attempted to turn from Highway 33 on to the interstate, the Minnesota State Patrol...

A 33-year-old Perham man was killed after being ejected from his pickup truck in a rollover accident on Thursday. The Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office said Jeremiah Fiedler lost control of his vehicle while negotiating a curve on a gravel road northeast of Perham. The accident...

ADA, Minn. - A head-on crash near here killed an elderly couple from Mentor, Minn., on Monday afternoon, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. Carlton and Hazel Roed , both 88, were headed north on Highway 9 in a 2009 Chevrolet Impala when the car crossed the centerline...

PELICAN RAPIDS, Minn. – A bus ran over the legs of a boy who slipped and fell near the high school here on Wednesday, police said. The boy, an elementary school student, was taken to a local hospital, Pelican Rapids Police Chief Jeff Stadum said. The accident...

BEMIDJI, Minn. – A Menagha, Minn., man is hospitalized after he lost control of his pickup truck and hit a bridge guardrail in Bemidji Wednesday morning. Minnesota State Patrol Lt. Tiffani Nielson said Joshua E. Nevala, 20, of Menagha, was headed east on Highway...

A 70-year-old Fergus Falls woman was hurt in a two-vehicle accident near Phelps Mill on New Year’s Day. The crash occurred at the intersection of County Highway 1 and 310th Avenue, west of Otter Tail Lake, at about 4:20 p.m., according to the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office....

A 75-year-old man and a male acquaintance were rescued from the roof of a pickup truck that had fallen through the ice on Otter Tail Lake on Friday. Robert Karst, of Battle Lake, who was driving the truck, and his unidentified male passenger, were brought back to shore unharmed,...