Two dead in Red Lake County vehicle rollover

The passenger was not wearing a seat belt, the State Patrol said.

November 6, 2021 at 10:10PM

Two people were killed Friday in a single-vehicle accident in Red Lake County, in northwestern Minnesota.

Kathy Mae Jenkins, 70, of East Grand Forks, Minn., and Darrell Jack-Charles Herdt, 48, of Brooks, Minn., were westbound on Hwy. 92 just west of Brooks when their sports-utility vehicle drifted onto the shoulder. The driver overcorrected, causing the SUV to roll before it came to rest in the ditch, the State Patrol said.

Both were dead at the scene. Jenkins, who was driving, was wearing a seat belt while Herdt was not, the State Patrol said. The accident occurred about 30 miles east of Crookston.

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Katy Read writes for the Star Tribune's Inspired section. She previously covered Carver County and western Hennepin County as well as aging, workplace issues and other topics since she began at the paper in 2011. Prior to that, she was a reporter at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, La., and the Duluth News-Tribune and spent 15 years as a freelance writer for national and regional magazines.

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