NDHP-fatalcrashDRAKE, N.D. (AP) — A two-vehicle crash in McHenry County killed a 73-year-old Drake woman.

The Highway Patrol says Jacqualine Richter was driving a sport utility vehicle that turned in front of a car at an intersection on U.S. Highway 52 at Drake. The two vehicles collided shortly before 5:30 p.m. Monday.

Richter was flown to a Minot hospital, where she later died.

The two people in the car were taken to a Harvey hospital with unspecified injuries.

 

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Drake, ND   (CSi)  The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports a Drake woman was killed in a crash on Highway 52 near Drake Monday evening.

The unidentified woman was attempting to turn left into a gas station on the North side of Highway 52 when when she was struck by a couple traveling westbound. The Drake woman’s vehicle came to rest in a ditch.

76 year-old driver Dennis Smith and 73 year-old passenger Melanie Smith of Minot were transported to St. Aloisius Medical Center in Harvey for treatmetn of their injuries. The Drake woman was transported by helicopter to Trinity Hospital in Minot where she later died from her injuries.

The crash is under investigation by the North Dakota Highway Patrol.