CLEARWATER -- One person is hurt after a rear end crash in Stearns County Wednesday afternoon.

The incident happened at about 1:30 p.m. on I-94 near Highway 24 in Clearwater.

The Minnesota State Patrol says 65-year-old Samuel Pederson, of Becker, was heading east on I-94 when he was rear ended by a Toyota pickup truck.

The driver of the pickup was 39-year-old Matthew Olander, of Staples. He was taken to St. Cloud Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Pederson was not hurt. Authorities says Olander was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash.

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