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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