Wahpeton  (NDHP)    –  The North Dakota Highway Patrol has identified the  person was killed  Wednesday about 7:25 -p.m., in a crash on a rural road about 3 miles south of Wahpeton.

44-year-old Christopher Olsen, of Wahpeton, was driving a 2002 Buick LeSabre north on 182nd Avenue Southeast about a third of a mile south of 84th Street Southeast.

His  car left the road, went into the ditch and rolled, coming to a stop on its roof in a cornfield.

Olsen  was thrown out of the car during the crash and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The crash remains under investigation.