GLASSTON, N.D. (KFGO) – The North Dakota Highway Patrol has released the name of a man who died in a head-on crash on a county road east of Glasston in northeastern North Dakota early Wednesday morning.
The Highway Patrol said 35-year-old Kyle Watts of Drayton, N.D. was driving a pickup on Pembina County Road 6 shortly before 4:30 a.m. when he veered into the oncoming lane and crashed into a dump truck hauling sugar beets.
Watts was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the vehicle. Both vehicles started on fire and were engulfed in flames.
The driver of the dump truck, a 31-year-old man from Broken Arrow, Okla., suffered minor injuries. He was not cited in the crash. He was wearing a seatbelt.
The incident remains under investigation by the North Dakota Highway Patrol.
