Buhl,MN : Alcohol involved in northeast Minnesota crash that killed two on may, Saturday 13th 2017

Two people were killed following an alcohol-involved two-vehicle collision on U.S. Highway 169 outside Buhl in northeast Minnesota late Saturday.

Jason Michael Gates, 26, of Superior, Wis., and 7-year-old Snowden Elizabeth Bothwell, of Hibbing, died in the crash, said the Minnesota State Patrol in a news release Sunday. They were in opposing vehicles that collided at the intersection of Highway 169 and St. Louis County Road 25 in Great Scott Township.


Another person, one of three minors and seven people involved in the crash, was taken to a Duluth hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Alcohol was a factor in the crash, the patrol said, indicating in its news release that Gates and his passenger had been drinking.

According to the news release, Gates was driving a 2013 Dodge Ram and was traveling south on County 25 when he collided with a westbound vehicle driven by Maegen Rae Hunt, 39, of Hibbing.

Hunt was headed west on Highway 169 in a Hyundai Elantra, which included five people in the car, the patrol said, including the 7-year-old who succumbed to her injuries. Hunt was transported to Fairview University Medical Center-Mesabi in Hibbing with non-life-threatening injuries, the patrol said.

Avery Ann Bothwell, 15, of Hibbing, was transported to Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, the patrol said.

Samuel Hunt Bothwell, 4, and Kaelen Maeve Dolinsek, 19, both of Hibbing, were transported to Fairview University with non-life-threatening injuries, the patrol said.

The passenger in Gates’ vehicle, Joshua Wayne Johnson, 24, of Superior, was taken to Fairview University with non-life-threatening injuries, the patrol said.


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Alcohol involved in northeast Minnesota crash that killed two