Crash near Willmar leaves 1 person dead, 6 others injured

A passenger in a minivan was killed, the State Patrol said.

August 26, 2021 at 12:38PM

An 83-year-old woman from Sanborn, Minn., died Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash west of Willmar, Minn. Six other people were injured.

The collision occurred about 11:20 a.m. Wednesday on Hwy. 12 just outside of Pennock in Kandiyohi County, the State Patrol said.

A minivan was heading north on NW. 135th Street, where it collided with a car on westbound Hwy. 12, the patrol said. The car had the right of way at that intersection.

The crash killed minivan passenger Dolores Matilda Berg, the patrol said. Injured in the van was 84-year-old driver Frederick H. Berg, also of Sanborn, and passengers Irene Mathiowetz, 83, of Sleepy Eye, Minn., and 88-year-old Robert W. Mathiowetz, also of Sleepy Eye.

Three people in the car also survived their injures, the patrol said: Rae Ann L. Baker, 22, of Redwood Falls, Minn.; Kyri E. Cox, 17, also of Redwood Falls, and Thomas B. Zempel, 20, of Mankato, Minn.

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