PINE RIVER, Minn.— Three people died and three suffered life-threatening injuries Sunday after a head-on crash west of Pine River, Minnesota.
The crash was reported at 12:38 a.m. Sunday near the intersection of 24th Street Southwest and 36th Avenue Southwest in Cass County, about 35 miles north of Brainerd.
Kyle Daniel Jones, 32, of Bayport, Minnesota, was driving a 2020 Ford F150 pickup west on 24th Street and the truck collided head-on with a 2008 Pontiac G6 traveling east on 24th Street. The vehicles came to rest near where they crashed, the Minnesota State Patrol reported, but few other details were related in the initial crash report.
Jones and a passenger in the truck, Mandy Marie Tellinghuisen, 30, also of Bayport, both suffered life-threatening injuries and were transported to CHI St. Joseph’s Health in Park Rapids, Minnesota. The State Patrol reported alcohol was involved with Jones.
Three people in the other vehicle were killed in the crash. Royal William Noe, 39, of Hillman, who was driving the Pontiac, and passengers Heather Faye Ceballos, 50, and Corey Stephen Peterson, 36, both of Brainerd, died.
One other passenger, 53-year-old Kelly Lee Kuschel of Pine River, suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to CHI St. Joseph’s Health.
Road conditions were dry at the time. It was unknown whether seat belts were in use for any of those in the crash, according to the state patrol.
North Memorial Health Ambulance and the Cass County Sheriff’s Department assisted at the scene.
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