A 27-year-old man from Austin, Minn., died early Friday in a two-vehicle crash on an icy highway in Dodge County, according to the State Patrol.
Keith Prescott Crape was driving a 2009 Toyota Camry southbound on Hwy. 218 just south of Blooming Prairie and collided with a northbound 2008 GMC Acadia at 5:40 a.m., the patrol said. The Camry then caught fire. Crape died at the scene.
The other driver, Oscar Agustin Perez Morales, 44, of Austin, suffered noncritical injuries.
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