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Pickup Driver Charged in Fatal Buggy Crash in NW Minnesota
BAGLEY, Minn. (AP) _ Prosecutors have charged a pickup driver for rear-ending
an Amish buggy and killing a rider in northwestern Minnesota.
Twenty-seven-year-old Christopher Baumann of Bemidji is charged with criminal
vehicular homicide in the Saturday night crash in Clearwater County.
Baumann is suspected of driving drunk when his Ford F-350 pickup struck the
horse-drawn buggy from behind on Highway 92.
The State Patrol says 23-year-old Elsie Yoder of Clearbrook was taken to a
Fargo, North Dakota, hospital and later died. Her brother, 27-year-old Mervin
Yoder, who was driving the buggy, was taken to a Bagley hospital with
non-life-threatening injuries.
Officers found the pickup driver a half-mile north of the crash. The complaint says Baumann had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech.
The Amish family's horse had to be euthanized.
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