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POLICE ROUNDUP : Collision Sends Man to Hospital

Posted on: Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 09:00 CDT

By Eba Hamid, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.

Jun. 20--A Crookston man was hospitalized Monday after a grain truck slammed into his 1997 GMC Suburban, totaling it.

The accident happened at a rural intersection about a half-mile south of Walle Lutheran Church in Grand Forks County.

Altru Ambulance picked up Brian Halos, who was traveling south toward Crookston when Paul Miller's westbound grain truck crashed into his vehicle's left side.

According to Highway Patrol Trooper Randy

Mittleider, Halos was coherent and did not suffer any major cuts.

Miller, a Grand Forks man who was transporting garbage from a work site in eastern Grand Forks County, was traveling to Thompson, N.D., when a piece of trash fell off his truck.

Miller said he looked both ways at the intersection as he approached the yield sign and did not see Halos' truck, but he then looked behind him to see if the driver in the car trailing him picked up the piece of dropped trash.

That was when the accident occurred.

After seeing damage to the Suburban, Miller said he panicked.

"For that first split second, I thought that I'd killed someone," he said.

He said he saw Halos moving as he approached the Suburban. Miller, who received a failure-to-yield citation, suffered no injuries and was not hospitalized. He works for Garon Construction in Thompson and said he'd taken the route many times in his two years of employment with the company.

"I knew the yield sign was there," he said.

Both men were alone in their vehicles. The 1967 Chevrolet grain truck suffered front-end damage.

Tim Maurstad, from Interstate Towing & Repair, said the red Suburban was "totaled for sure."

Seeing the truck's landing spot in a ditch, Maurstad said it was possible for it to have rolled two or three times before stopping.

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Source: Grand Forks Herald (Grand Forks, N.D.)

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