By Associated Press - Friday, March 8, 2019

CENTER, N.D. (AP) - Authorities have identified two New Salem residents who died in a one-vehicle crash in Oliver County.

The North Dakota Highway Patrol says 55-year-old Michael Groce and 54-year-old Michael Itrich were killed in the crash Wednesday morning about half a mile south of center.

The patrol says Groce was driving a car that went out of control on a curve on a rural road and rolled in the ditch. Groce and Itrich died at the scene.



A second passenger was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

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