accidents

Thanks to a passing snowplow driver, a Detroit Lakes man was rescued after his sports utility vehicle went into the Pelican River in the Detroit Lakes Industrial Park early Thursday morning. Michael John Anderson, 51, of Detroit Lakes was transported to Essentia St. Mary’s Hospital...

A New York Mills man and his son escaped serious injury after the vehicle they were in slid into a ditch, hit a tree and rolled. Richard McPherson, age 34, was traveling with his son northbound on 530th Avenue, one mile south of County Highway 67, on Nov. 27 when he lost control...

A Dent woman was injured and extricated from her vehicle, and another woman hurt, in an accident near Perham Friday. Colleen Adella Kroenke, 53, of Dent, and Tina May Kawlewski, age 29, of Moorhead, were both taken by ambulance to Perham Health, where they were treated for non-life...

A 16-year-old driver escaped injury in a one-car rollover along 320th Street in extreme eastern Otter Tail County, near Wadena, at 6:09 p.m. on Nov. 22. According to the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office, the driver swerved to avoid a dead pheasant in the roadway. The vehicle...

Icy roads led to accidents and some injuries in the Perham area on Monday. Three people, according to the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office, were injured in a two-vehicle crash at 9:43 a.m. at the intersection of Highway 34 and Harvest Avenue, west of Perham. A vehicle driven...

With slick and snowy roads around the Fargo-Moorhead area, local law enforcement agencies have been dealing with a slew of crashes. The Minnesota State Patrol counted 111 crashes Monday in the west-central and northwest regions. Two of the crashes were fatal, six were rollovers,...

A rural Detroit Lakes man escaped but his dog died when a pickup truck when through ice on Rock Lake Sunday morning. Stephen Sperl, 49, was driving a 1998 Toyota Tacoma about a half-mile from shore when the truck broke through near what authorities believe was a pressure ridge....

ADA, Minn. – A 23-year-old man died early Saturday morning in a vehicle rollover about 5 miles east of here on Highway 200. Kirk F. Skaurud of Gary was ejected from the 2007 Chevy Silverado, which was traveling eastbound when it left the roadway after 2 a.m. The pickup truck...

AKELEY, Minn. – A Park Rapids woman was seriously injured when an SUV she was driving rolled near here early Sunday morning, the State Patrol reported. Cindy L. Lundmark, 56, was traveling westbound on Highway 34 about 2 a.m. when she left the road, drove into a ditch, and then...

A 32-year-old Staples man died in a one-vehicle rollover Friday night. David Duane Kobliska was driving a 2004 Ford explorer on Todd County Road 66 near the intersection of County Road 7 in Fawn Lake Township shortly before 11:15 p.m. when the vehicle left the roadway, according...

SAUK RAPIDS, Minn. -- A pedestrian was struck and killed by a driver Saturday morning on Highway 10 near Sauk Rapids. The Minnesota State Patrol said Robert C. Schmidt, 23, of St. Cloud, was struck by a 1990 Buick Century around 5:30 a.m. at milepost 176. He died at the scene. The...

Bruce Barthel of rural Burtrum in Todd County was admitted to St. Gabriel's Hospital in Little Falls Sunday for treatment of a gunshot wound. According to the Todd County Sheriff's office, Barthel was in his yard by his garage when a group of deer hunters shot a deer. Barthel said...

PARKERS PRAIRIE, Minn. – A bicyclist is dead after riding into traffic Thursday evening near this Otter Tail County town. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, a bicyclist was riding west on 145th Street about 4 p.m. when the cyclist entered traffic and broadsided a northbound...

An 18-year-old Perham woman is fighting for her life after being seriously injured in a car crash last Thursday. With family by her side around-the-clock in the intensive care unit at Sanford Medical Center in Fargo, Kylee Wrobleski was moved into her own room late Monday. Her...

Two Perham residents were hurt in a two-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon at Highway 108 and Harvest Road near Perham. Kylee R. Wrobleski, 18, of Perham, was seriously injured in the crash, according to the State Patrol. The State Patrol originally reported that she had suffered...