KSTP Created: June 09, 2021 09:16 AM
A man and a teenager are dead after a crash in Itasca County Tuesday morning involving an ambulance.
The Minnesota State Patrol said at around 10:21 a.m., an ambulance was heading south on County Road 336 when a dump truck going eastbound on County Road 57 collided and T-boned the ambulance in the intersection.
There were three people in the ambulance, and two of those people have died.
According to the state patrol, the victims have been identified as 51-year-old Troy Edward Boettcher from Warba and 17-year-old Joseph Michael Latimer from Grand Rapids.
The troopers said the ambulance driver Kimberly Fay Hake, 28, of Cohasset, is suffering from life-threatening injuries, and the driver of the dump truck Jeffery Elvin Ekholm, 67, of Nashwauk, is also suffering from life-threatening injuries.
Updated: 9:24 AM CDT June 9, 2021
ITASCA COUNTY, Minn. Two people are dead and two are in serious condition after an ambulance and a dump truck collided Tuesday morning in Itasca County.
According to information from the Minnesota State Patrol, an ambulance was headed south on County Road 336 in Lawrence Township around 10:20 a.m. Tuesday. A dump truck was traveling eastbound on County Road 57, and struck the ambulance on the passenger side, T-boning it.
The driver of the dump truck, 67-year old Jeffery Elvin Ekholm of Nashwauk is currently in St. Luke s Hospital in Duluth with life-threatening injuries, according to police.
The ambulance s driver, 28-year-old Kimberly Fay Hake of Cohasset also suffered life-threatening injures, and is currently hospitalized at Grand Itasca Hospital in Grand Rapids.
The Minnesota State Patrol reported a crash at the intersection of County Roads 57 and 336 in Lawrence Township at 10:21 a.m. on Tuesday, June 8.Â
According to the State Patrol, a Meds-1 Ambulance was southbound on County Road 336. A dump truck was eastbound on County Road 57. The two vehicles collided in the intersection when the dump truck struck the ambulance on the passenger side in a T-bone style crash.
Meds-1 EMS paramedic Troy Edward Boettcher, 51, of Warba, was killed in the crash as was Joseph Michael Latimer, 17, of Grand Rapids, who was a patient in transport. Meds-1 EMS paramedic Kimberly Fay Hake, 28, of Cohasset, was driving the ambulance and sustained life-threatening injuries. Hake was transported to Grand Itasca Clinic & Hospital and later life-flighted out.Â