MN State Patrol Responds to Accident on Highway 75

The Minnesota State Patrol reported a two-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 75, just south of Warren, at 10:09 p.m. Thursday, October 18. A northbound Volvo farm semi-tractor, driven by Joann Fay Sorenson, age 67, of Warren, was slowing to turn right onto 170th St., when rear-ended by a Chevy Silverado driven by Eric Thomas Lavanger, age 29, also of Warren, MN. Both vehicles’ airbags deployed, both drivers were wearing their seatbelts, Sorenson was transported to North Valley Health Center in Warren, Lavanger was transported to Altru Hospital Grand Forks, both with non-life threatening injuries. Marshall County Sheriff and Warren Fire Departments assisted in the incident.