03-18-2009

SD Couple Dead In MN Accident

A South Dakota couple is dead after their car collided with a semitruck in western Minnesota.

 

The Minnesota State Patrol identifies the victims as the car's driver - 82-year-old Marcia Landon of Aberdeen, S.D. - and her passenger, her 86-year-old husband, William.

 

The patrol says the Landons were driving west on U.S. 12 when they collided head-on with an eastbound semi in the eastbound lane.

 

The crash happened around 11 a.m. Monday about 15 miles east of

Ortonville.

 

The truck driver wasn't hurt.