GRANDIN, N.D. (KFGO) – A fatal head-on collision was reported early Sunday morning on Interstate 29, about 30 miles north of Fargo. State Radio dispatched a call at 12:33 a.m. for a wrong-way driver near mile marker 74.
At 12:49 a.m. the pickup was still northbound in the southbound lanes and struck a semi head-on. The pickup came to rest on the outside shoulder of southbound the interstate, at mile marker 93, facing northwest.
The semi, driven by a 28-year-old man and a 22-year-old male co-driver from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, came to rest in the median facing southeast. The driver of the pickup, Siemubonue Torh, 39, of Fargo, was pronounced dead at the scene. The two men in the semi were uninjured.
Multiple agencies responded. North Dakota Highway Patrol, Traill County Sheriff’s Office, Hillsboro Ambulance Service, and Trail County Coroner’s Office.
The crash remains under investigation by the North Dakota Highway Patrol.
