The Minnesota State Patrol, Department of Transportation and local agencies will meet next week to address a possible need to respond at the intersection, located roughly 5 miles outside Nashwauk.
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Deadly Wreck At Same Site Where Minnesota DNR Officer Was Killed
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Grand Rapids, MN (KROC AM News) - There has been another deadly traffic wreck at the same intersection where a Minnesota DNR officer was recently killed and this one involved an ambulance.
It happened just after 10:00 am Tuesday in rural Itasca County and killed at least one person and seriously injured both drivers.
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The Minnesota State Patrol report on the accident indicates a dump truck struck the passenger side of the ambulance
“in a T-bone style crash.”
The truck was driven by 67-year-old Jeffery Ekholm of Nashwauk. The ambulance driver was identified as 28-year-old Kimberly Hake of Cohasset. Their injuries were described as life-threatening.
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.
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