BELLEVILLE, Kan. (AP) - A Minnesota truck driver died in a crash in northern Kansas, the Kansas Highway Patrol reported.
The crash happened around 8 a.m. Monday on U.S. Highway 81 in Republic County, killing 33-year-old David Fronning, of Breckenridge, Minnesota, according to a report by a television station KAKE.
Investigators said Fronning was driving a semitrailer southbound on the highway when it went into a ditch, hit an embankment and went airborne before crashing into trees, coming to rest on its side in a field.
Fronning died at the scene, authorities said.
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