One Dead, Six Injured Following Two-Vehicle Crash Near Pennock Wednesday

(KNSI) – One person is dead and six others are injured after a car and a minivan crashed in Kandiyohi County late Wednesday morning.

The Minnesota State Patrol says a Honda Odyssey, driven by 84-year-old Frederick Berg of Sanborn, was traveling north on 135th Street NW near Pennock and a Kia Spectra5, driven by 22-year-old Rae Ann Lynn Baker of Redwood Falls, was heading west on Highway 12. The patrol says the vehicles crashed at the intersection of those roads just before 11:30 a.m. Multiple agencies responded to the scene.

The crash resulted in the death of an 83-year-old woman from Sanborn who was a passenger in the Odyssey. Her name has not been released.

The Odyssey’s driver and two other passengers — Irene Lucille Mathiowetz, 83, and Robert Wendelin Mathiowetz, 88, both of Sleepy Eye — were taken to Rice Memorial Hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, and the state patrol says the three were all wearing their seatbelts.

In the Spectra5, Baker and her two passengers — Kyri Cox, 17, of Redwood Falls and Thomas Zempel, 20, of Mankato — suffered non-life-threatening injuries. First responders transported Baker and Cox to Rice Memorial Hospital. Baker and Zempel were wearing seatbelts, but the patrol says Cox was not.

The Minnesota State Patrol says alcohol was not a factor in the crash.

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