BROOKINGS COUNTY Two men from Minnesota were injured, with one of them being sent to a hospital, in a late Tuesday afternoon two-vehicle crash northeast of Brookings between White and Bushnell.
Lyle Koopman, 71, of Ivanhoe was taken by Brookings Ambulance to Brookings Health System with what Brookings County Assistant Sheriff Scott Sebring described as non-life-threatening injuries. The other man, 35-year-old Robert Bogstad of Holland, was treated at the scene of the crash, which occurred at 5:04 p.m. at the intersection of 207th Street and 476th Avenue.
Sebring wrote in a Wednesday news release that Bogstad was driving a 2000 F-150 pulling a flatbed trailer with a 1999 GMC Sonoma on it south on 476th Avenue and didnt stop for the stop sign at the intersection of 207th Street. Koopman was driving a 2014 Kenworth semi eastbound through the intersection and the two collided.
This collision separated Bogstads pickup from a trailer loaded with another pickup, which then also became separated, Sebring wrote. The semi driven by Koopman entered the south ditch and vaulted when it hit a driveway approach.
The three vehicles were destroyed during the collision and damage estimates are still being collected. Sebring said Bogstad was issued a citation for failing to stop for the sign.
The sheriffs office is continuing to investigate the incident. Other responding agencies were fire departments from Aurora and White.
Contact Mondell Keck at [email protected].
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