St. Louis County crash kills 1 person, injures 4 others
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One person was killed and four others injured in an early morning traffic crash in northeastern Minnesota's St. Louis County.
The sheriff's office says the crash happened shortly before 4 a.m. Monday when a vehicle left the roadway and overturned at the intersection of two township roads.
Nineteen-year-old passenger Axton Whitfield was thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. Four other occupants were taken to local hospitals, but they aren't believed to have life-threatening injuries.
Charges are pending against the 18-year-old driver of the vehicle.
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