{"id":237060,"date":"2021-10-17T19:17:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T00:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=237060"},"modified":"2021-10-17T21:48:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T02:48:35","slug":"road-construction-worker-killed-in-cooperstown-fri-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=237060","title":{"rendered":"ID Released, Road Worker Killed in Cooperstown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update<\/p>\n<p>Cooperstown (NDHP)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports, a road construction worker was killed Friday about 5-p.m. along <span id=\"page50R_mcid5\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">15th St SE in Cooperstown.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The report says the <span id=\"page50R_mcid20\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"> 50-year-old female construction worker from Odessa, Minnesota,\u00a0 <span id=\"page50R_mcid18\" class=\"markedContent\">Melissa McMahon<\/span>,was struck and killed <span id=\"page50R_mcid24\" class=\"markedContent\"> by a 1988 Kenworth dump truck that was backing up to pour asphalt on the roadway.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"page50R_mcid24\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">McMahon was assisting in backing up the dump truck when she was struck.\u00a0 She <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">sustained serious injuries and was pronounced deceased on scene.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"page50R_mcid13\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"> The 63-year-old male, truck driver\u00a0 from Summit, SD, Robert Halvorson, was not wearing a seat belt.<\/span><\/span><span id=\"page50R_mcid13\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"page50R_mcid24\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The crash is <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">under investigation by the North Dakota Highway Patrol. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Assisting at the scene were:\u00a0 The <span id=\"page50R_mcid11\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Griggs County Sheriff\u2019s Department, Steele\u00a0 <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">County Sheriff\u2019s Department, Cooperstown Ambulance, and Cooperstown Fire Department. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update Cooperstown (NDHP)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports, a road construction worker was killed Friday about 5-p.m. along 15th St SE in Cooperstown. The report says the 50-year-old female construction worker from Odessa, Minnesota,\u00a0 Melissa McMahon,was struck and killed by a 1988 Kenworth dump truck that was backing up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":227921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237060"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237131,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237060\/revisions\/237131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}