KILLDEER, N.D. (AP) — The Highway Patrol has identified two drivers killed in a head-on collision in western North Dakota.
Authorities say 50-year-old Thomas Speich (spyk) of Dunn Center was driving a U-Haul truck and 44-year-old Cuauhtemoc Ruiz Sanchez was driving a pickup truck towing a trailer. Ruiz Sanchez lives in both Pendleton, Ore., and Dickinson.
The patrol says the pickup lost traction on the ice-covered roadway and slid into the path of the truck about 9:45 a.m. Thursday on state Highway 22 south of Killdeer. An 8-year-old girl in the truck was hurt.
