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ND – (NewsDakota.com) A 30 year-old Minnesota man was seriously injured after the semi he was driving rolled in a ditch south of Luverne on April 27th.

The Barnes County Sheriff Randy McClaflin says the man was driving a semi-truck for Knife River Inc; hauling hot asphalt at the time of the accident. The company is working on a mill and overlay road project.

McClaflin says the semi rolled one time and then rolled back onto the driver’s side of the vehicle.

Fire and Rescue crews from Valley City and Hope had to extricate the man who was pinned in the vehicle.

Agency’s responding were the Hope First Responders & Ambulance, Hope Fire Department, Barnes County Rescue Squad, Valley City Rural Fire Department, Barnes County Ambulance and Sanford Life-Flight.

The crash happened  one mile south of North Dakota Highway 26 on Barnes County Highway 27.  The accident remains under investigation by the Barnes County Sheriff’s Office.

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Photos courtesy of the Barnes County Sheriff’s office.