Crash west of Fosston: Horse dies, woman injured

A horse died in a one-vehicle accident Wednesday evening west of Fosston.

The Minnesota State Patrol reports that at approximately 8:38 p.m. that night, a Ford Explorer struck a horse on Highway 59 near 400th Street in Winger Township, Polk County.

The Polk County Sheriff's Office told Lakeland News that the horse died. Preliminary investigations revealed that there were other horses in the area and one of them strayed onto the road.

The driver of the vehicle, 67-year-old Peggy Ann Dammen of Thief River Falls, was taken to a Fosston hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The other three passengers, children aged 3, 5 and 7, were all uninjured in the incident.