{"id":25152,"date":"2013-08-23T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=25152"},"modified":"2013-08-24T11:05:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T16:05:15","slug":"two-die-in-accident-east-of-litchville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=25152","title":{"rendered":"Second Driver Identified in Fatal Semis Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NDHP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3847\" alt=\"NDHP\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NDHP-300x197.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a>Valley City, ND &#8212; (KCSi-T.V. News Aug 23, 2013) &#8212; The North Dakota Highway Patrol has released the name of the second person killed in a fiery crash involving two semis, the morning of Wednesday August 14, 2013 at the intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 46 south of Valley City.<\/p>\n<p>He was identified as 64 year old <strong>Carl Bjug<\/strong>stad, of Sheldon, North Dakota. The report says he was not wearing a seat belt.<\/p>\n<p>The man driving the other\u00a0semi was previously identified as 46-year-old<strong> Allen Tofsrud<\/strong> of Leeds, North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Highway Patrol Sgt. Tom Herzig\u2019s report says an eastbound semi pulling a hopper, operated by Tofsrud missed a stop sign and struck the northbound semi pulling a flat bed trailer, driven by Bjugstad, around 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses say the fire engulfed both semi tractor trailers vehicles.\u00a0 Both vehicles were destroyed by the fire. Both drivers were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Herzig says there are precautions on the road where the crash happened, including rumble strips and flashing red and yellow lights.<\/p>\n<p>The crash continues to remain under investigation by the North Dakota Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reported previously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Aug 16, 2013&#8211;\u00a0 The North Dakota Highway Patrol, Friday afternoon identified one of the persons killed in Wednesday&#8217;s crash between two tractor-trailer rigs.\u00a0 He was identifed as 46 year old Allen Tofsrud, of Leeds, North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Tofsrud was driving a semi-truck east on Highway 46, failed to stop at the intersection and struck a northbound semi-truck on Highway 1. Both drivers were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The name of the second man, driving the other rig is being withheld and will be released upon further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Reported previously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP Aug 14, 2013) &#8211; Officials in Barnes County say two people have died in a fiery crash east of Litchville.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes County Sheriff Randy McClaflin says the accident happened shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday (Aug 14, 2013) at the intersection of North Dakota highways 1 and 46.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses say the fire engulfed both semi tractor trailers vehicles<\/p>\n<p>Highway Patrol Sgt. Tom Herzig reports, the driver of an eastbound semi failed to stop at a stop sign and collided with the northbound semi.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Herzig says there are precautions on the road where the crash happened, including rumble strips and flashing red and yellow lights.<\/p>\n<p>Both drivers were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Both vehicles were destroyed by the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Names and hometowns of the driver&#8217;s are being withheld pending family notification.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Valley City, ND &#8212; (KCSi-T.V. News Aug 23, 2013) &#8212; The North Dakota Highway Patrol has released the name of the second person killed in a fiery crash involving two semis, the morning of Wednesday August 14, 2013 at the intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 46 south of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25152"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25155,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152\/revisions\/25155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}