2 girls injured in crash with semi north of Fairmont, one critically
October 7, 2022 9:56AM CDT
A juvenile suffered life-threatening injuries in a crash with a semi truck north of Fairmont Thursday night shortly after 10 p.m.
The state patrol says the girl was a passenger in a Ford Fusion driven by a juvenile girl from Trimont. She was not wearing a seat belt, according to a patrol crash report.
The Ford was southbound on Highway 15 when it collided with a farm semi truck slowing to make a right turn into a driveway at 160th St.
The driver of the Ford suffered non-life threatening injuries. Both girls were transported to Mayo Clinic in Fairmont. Their ages have not been released.
The semi driver, David Eugene Zellmer, 60, of Fairmont, wasn’t injured.
