Moorhead, MN : One dead in car-Transystems beet truck crash north of Moorhead on Wednesday afternoon, March 29, 2017

One man died shortly after noon Wednesday, March 29, after a crash between a sedan and a beet truck at the intersection of County Road 26 and Highway 75 north of Moorhead.

Moorhead firefighters had to cut the roof off the car to extricate the man, according to Clay County Sheriff Bill Bergquist.

The identity of the crash victim has not been released.

The front end of a bright blue two-door car was smashed and wedged under the front end of a tractor-trailer sugarbeet truck in the middle of the intersection roughly a mile south of Kragnes, Minn.

A man, who identified himself as the beet truck driver, said he was in third gear going about 4 miles an hour “and boom, he hit me.” The driver said other witnesses to the crash told him that the car “was going really fast.”

The beet truck driver, who didn’t appear to suffer visible injuries, was then ushered away from the scene by a man who said he was a representative of Transystems, Inc., which operated the beet truck. The Transystems representative it appeared their driver was OK.

Several beet trucks were lined up on County Road 26 on the east side of the intersection as wreckers removed the car and prepared to tow the semi.

F-M Ambulance responded to the scene, along with two Moorhead Fire Department trucks, a Dilworth Fire Department vehicle, the sheriff's office and Minnesota State Patrol.

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One dead in car-Transystems beet truck crash north of Moorhead