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An 83-year-old Palisade, Minnesota man was killed Tuesday after his pickup lost control on Minnesota Highway 210 and was struck by a box truck.
Gary Lynn Rognrud was traveling east in a Chevy Silverado when the crash with the westbound truck occurred in Aitkin County’s Jevne Township, near 257th Avenue, a Minnesota State Patrol news release said. The crash was reported at around 9 a.m.
Rognrud was taken to Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth, where he died.
The driver of the work truck, 53-year-old Robert Carl Hannahs, of Nisswa, Minnesota, was taken to Aitkin’s Riverwood Healt...