NDHP investigating injury and fatality crashes

The Highway Patrol is investigating a three-car crash in northwestern North Dakota that left a man dead. The Bismarck Tribune reported Sunday that 79-year-old Evan Elvestad died at the scene of the crash Friday on U.S. Highway 52 about 11 miles south of Carpio. Authorities say Elvestad was northbound when his Nissan Pathfinder left its lane and hit a southbound Ford Escape.. Elvestad corrected but again left his lane and hit a southbound semitrailer hauling cattle. Elvestad’s Pathfinder came to a stop and caught fire. The Escape’s driver wasn’t hurt. The semitrailer driver, 73-year-old Herman Wall of Burdett, Alberta, suffered minor injuries.

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A single vehicle crash west of Killdeer (ND) on Sunday has left a 27 year old Dickinson (ND) man hospitalized with serious injuries.  According to the North Dakota Highway Patrol the lone driver was heading west on Highway 200 when he drove straight through a roundabout with Highway 22.  The passenger car impacted the curb…crossed the lane…and entered the ditch.   The unidentified male was air lifted to a Bismarck hospital.