Bradley Cichos, 53, killed, several people injured when pickup rear-ends horse-drawn wagon on North Dakota Highway 17 near Wolford, North Dakota
Hayride turns deadly after pickup rear-ends wagon, kills Clydesdales and injures passengers(link is external)
The North Dakota Highway Patrol responded at 4:30 p.m. to the crash on North Dakota Highway 17 about 1 ½ miles west of Wolford, where troopers determined a 2006 Chevy pickup rear-ended an eastbound homemade wagon, according to a news release. The driver of the pickup, a 75-year-old man from Wolford, was not injured, but all of the wagon’s passengers, which had no safety restraints, were ejected.
It is not known if the pickup driver was wearing a seat belt. The pickup had no passengers.
1 Killed, 4 injured as Pickup Slams Into Horse-Drawn Wagon(link is external)
A four-year-old girl and the wagon's driver, a 61-year-old man, both from Wolford, were airlifted to Trinity Hospital in Minot for treatment of injuries.
Victim of fatal crash near Wolford identified(link is external)
Several others in the wagon, including a four year old girl, were hurt. Two of the injured were airlifted to Trinity Hospital in Minot, another was later airlifted to Altru Hospital in Grand Forks.
Why every fatality from a crash is not legally a wrongful death
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