On Friday morning, September 25, a school bus driver was seriously injured in a bus crash.

According to North Dakota Highway Patrol the accident happened shortly before 9 a.m. on North Dakota Highway 46 near Richland County Road 1. A Kindred School District bus was traveling eastbound on the Highway when it hit a semi being driven by 55 year old Eldon Burdick of Kindred. At the time of the collision the semi was trying to turn west onto Highway 46 from County Road when it was hit by the bus.

It took emergency crews 40 minutes to extricate the driver of the bus, 64 year old Cathryn Jostad of Kindred and she was taken to Essentia Health in Fargo. None of the passengers on the bus, 34 fourth graders, two teachers and a paraprofessional were injured.

Following the accident, the bus and the semi came to a stop on Highway 46, and shortly afterwards a westbound semi on Highway 46 which was being driven by 60 year old Jerry Mallet of Buffalo, hit the first semi and then a third semi being driven by 68 year old Wesley Briggs of Kindred narrowly avoided a collision and managed to stop on the shoulder. Finally a fourth semi, driven by 66 year old Charles Odegaard of Walcott rear ended the trailer being towed by Mallet and pushed him into the trailer towed by Briggs.

All of the carnage was due to the weather as there was dense fog making it impossible to see clearly ahead.

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On Tuesday morning, August 18, a Fargo truck driver died in a rollover crash.

According to the North Dakota Highway Patrol the accident happened shortly after 10 a.m. when the truck, being driven by a 58 year old man, was on Cass County Road 38 in Alice some 47 miles southwest of Fargo, and towing an empty bell dump trailer.

The driver started to drive around a curve in the road but the truck drifted onto the west shoulder. He overcorrected and the truck flipped ending upside down in a ditch. The driver was not wearing a seat belt and he was discovered crushed underneath the truck having been partially ejected.

He was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.

Police say that the accident is still under investigation and have so far no released the name of the driver.

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On the afternoon of Monday, May 25, a man had to be taken to hospital following a crash in his crop duster near the Casselton Regional Airport.

According to the state Highway Patrol, the plane was a Piper PA25 Pawnee and it was flying north about a mile south of the airport when it struck a power line and crashed. The Airport Manager said that the plane was on its way back to the airport when it became tangled in the power lines, which he said had never caused any problems before.

The pilot was a 70 year old man, and believed to be very experienced. So far neither his name nor the extent of his injuries is known although it is thought he was able to walk away from the crash before being transported to Sanford hospital in Fargo.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the crash.

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