On Friday, February 5, a man from Williston was killed in a traffic accident near Alexander.

According to the North Dakota Highway Patrol, the accident happened when a GMC Sierra pickup truck was heading north on U.S. Highway 85 about 18 miles north of Alexander just before 8 a.m. The roads were icy and 28 year old Forkpa Woniewala, a resident of Williston but originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was driving a 2001 GMC Jimmy when he lost control, the vehicle rotated and crossed into the northbound lanes, where it was hit on the passenger side by the Sierra. Woniewala died at the scene of the crash and neither of the two men in the pickup was injured.

The North Dakota Highway Patrol says that the crash remains under investigation.

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On Wednesday afternoon, December 2, 2015 three people were involved in an single vehicle accident after the car they were travelling in hit an icy patch on U.S. Highway 12 in Big Stone County,

Authorities have stated that the incident happened at approximately 12.30 p.m. when 29 year old Tausha Rogers, of Clinton was driving a 1998 Pontiac transport van Westbound on Highway 12. She then hit an icy spot causing her to lose control of the vehicle. The vehicle careered into a ditch and rolled over. The force of the impact caused Rogers to be ejected from the vehicle. She was not wearing a seat belt.

One passenger, 46 year old Angela Doren of Clinton who was wearing a seat belt, was transported to the Big Stone Hospital in Ortonville suffering from minor injuries. Roger’s daughter, Arhlyn Cousineau, aged 2, who was also in the vehicle escaped injury. Rogers was airlifted to Sanford Hospital in Fargo with serious injuries.

Police are continuing their investigations in to the accident.

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On Sunday afternoon, August 2, a young toddler was killed in north Fargo.

According to police, the accident happened around 12.30 p.m. in an alley behind the child’s home near the 1100 Block of 18th Street North.

The child was 20 month old Easton H. Schlicht and he appears to have been hit by a Cadillac Escalade SUV being driven by his 28 year old father, Kyle R. Schlicht. The boy died from head injuries shortly after he was hit but police were waiting for the results of an autopsy for confirmation.

Although the driver was alone in the vehicle at the time of the incident, the child’s mother and some other relatives were in the home, when the vehicle hit the boy at low speed. It is not known whether the SUV was reversing or going forwards when it hit the toddler. In addition it is not known why the child was in the alley.

Fargo police have said that criminal charges are not expected in the case and that drugs and alcohol do not appear to be factors in the boy’s death.

The Cass County Coroner’s Office is working with Fargo Police on the investigation.

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On Friday, July 3, a man from New Rockford was killed in an accident.

According to the North Dakota Highway Patrol, the accident happened in the early hours of Friday morning when 24 year old Adam Allmaras was driving a 2014 Ram pickup truck southbound on U.S. Highway 52/281. He was around three and a half miles north of Carrington and at the same time 56 year old Bernard Gorman of Adrian, N.D. was driving north on 52/281 in a 2007 International semi which was pulling an enclosed trailer.

The pickup truck then veered into the northbound lane and although Gorman tried to avoid the crash, there was a head on collision. Allmaras was declared dead at the scene and Gorman was taken to the Carrington Health Center and from there on to Fargo for treatment of his injuries.

The highway was closed for two hours and the crash remains under investigation by the North Dakota Highway Patrol.

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On Tuesday, June 23, two brothers were killed in a rollover crash on Interstate 94.

According to the police, the accident happened on Interstate 94 near Fergus Falls, Minnesota when the brothers were on their way to a basketball camp in Wisconsin along with two other Moorhead Park Christian students.

Authorities think that 18 year old Zach Kvakvog was driving the pickup eastbound when he hit the shoulder on the north side of the road, overcorrected to the right and rolled into the median, killing both himself and his 14 year old brother Connor. The other two boys were Jimmy Morton from Mississippi who was taken to Sanford Health with a head injury and Mark Schwandt from Moorhead who was taken to Lake Region Healthcare in Fergus Falls.

However, the Minnesota State Patrol are asking for help in finding a semi trailer which was apparently very close to the pickup and may have been involved in the accident.

The funeral for the boys was held on June 29, and the survivors of the accident attended in wheelchairs.

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On Saturday morning, April 25, a man from Litchville, N.D. died near Valley City when he suffered a medical condition while driving.

According to the state Highway Patrol the accident happened shortly before 10.30 a.m. on state Highway 1, around a mile south of the Interstate 94 ramp and two miles southwest of Valley City. Dennis Shape, aged 63 and his wife Diane, the same age were traveling northbound in a Chevy Silverado. Dennis Shape was driving when he suffered a medical condition, lost control of the car and went into the east ditch. The pickup continued moving for a few hundred yards more before coming to a stop when it hit a pile of rocks at the edge of a field.

A state trooper with a defibrillator tried to resuscitate Dennis and an ambulance crew continued when they arrived but he was already dead by the time he reached the hospital. Diane Shape suffered minor injuries.

The Highway Patrol said both were wearing seatbelts and the crash remains under investigation.

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