Northern Minnesota crash kills 2 people

A crash at a northern Minnesota intersection killed two people, officials in Itasca County said Monday.

The collision of a minivan and a pickup truck occurred about 4:15 p.m. on the July 4 at County Roads 63 and 62, the Sheriff’s Office said.

“Preliminary information indicates the van may have turned into the path of the oncoming pickup truck, resulting in the collision,” a Sheriff’s Office statement read.

According to the Sheriff’s Office:

Deputies arrived at the intersection and saw a female passenger who had been thrown from the wreckage of the van. Emergency medical personnel declared the woman dead at the scene.

The van’s driver, a man, was pinned inside the vehicle and taken by air ambulance to a hospital in the Duluth area, where he was pronounced dead.

A man driving the pickup and a woman with him sustained noncritical injuries and were treated at a Grand Rapids hospital. Both have been cooperating with investigators.