Two dead after motorcycle strikes loose trailer on Minnesota highway
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Two people died Saturday when their motorcycle struck a trailer that came loose from a tractor on a southern Minnesota highway.
The Minnesota State Patrol reported the crash happened just after 4 p.m. on State Highway 19 in Sibley County, between Gaylord and Henderson.
Authorities said a westbound tractor was pulling a trailer when the trailer came loose and went into the eastbound lane.
An eastbound motorcycle carrying two people collided with the trailer and went into the ditch. The two riders — identified by the Patrol as 60-year-old Marvin Fandrich and 61-year-old Kathy Fandrich, both from Aberdeen, S.D. — died at the scene.
Both were wearing helmets at the time of the crash.
The tractor operator, a 60-year-old man from Arlington, Minn., was not injured.
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