Two separate Minnesota fatal accidents have claimed four lives within the span of 12 hours, according to the State Patrol.
In the first accident, a Chevy Yukon SUV broadsided a car at a major intersection northwest of Duluth in Hermantown, killing the car’s driver and only passenger.
The intersection was controlled by a semaphore, but the State Patrol did not indicate which vehicle may have gone against a red light. The collision occurred early Monday morning, shortly after midnight at the four-lane divided highway intersection of Highway 53 and Arrowhead Road. The SUV was northbound on 53 and the car was westbound on Arrowhead, the patrol said.
The Duluth News-Tribune identified the car driver as Timonthy J. Schlies, 26, of Duluth. The State Patrol said the passenger in the car was Hans C. Warren, 27, of Duluth.
The driver of the SUV was Daniel D. Dougherty, 50 , of Hermantown. Dougherty, who was identified by the Duluth News-Tribune as the owner of Dougherty Funeral Home of Duluth, received no apparent injuries, according to the State Patrol.
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About 11 hours after the Hermantown fatal accident, two people from Aberdeen, S.D., died from injuries they suffered on State Highway 12 in Big Stone County in a Minnesota semi truck accident. The patrol said the Kenworth truck tractor and trailer was eastbound while the car was westbound. The collision occurred in the eastbound lane and driver of the large truck suffered no apparent injuries.
The deceased were identified as Marcia B. Landon, 82, the driver, and William H. Landon, 86, a passenger.
