Floodwood, MN : 19-year-old Winston Lahti killed in a a head-on collision on Highway 2 near Floodwood on Wednesday night, January 28, 2015
The State Patrol says a 19-year-old man was killed when his pickup collided head-on with a snowplow in northeastern Minnesota.
The crash happened around 9:50 p.m. Wednesday on Highway 2 east of Floodwood.
According to the patrol, Winston Lahti of Brookston was driving his pickup eastbound on the two-lane highway when he swerved into the westbound lane and collided with a Minnesota Department of Transportation snowplow.
Lahti was killed. The Star Tribune reports the plow driver was hospitalized with noncritical injuries.
The road was wet at the time.
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State Patrol: 19-year-old man killed in head-on crash with MnDOT snowplow in NE Minnesota