A traffic accident on Highway 62 and County Road 5, west of Windom, claimed the life of a 54-year-old Windom man on Monday.
The mishap involved a Ford driven by Scott Runck of Avoca and a Pontiac, driven by a 15-year-old from the Windom area.
A passenger in one of the vehicles was transported by ambulance to Windom Area Health where he died.
Runck was transported to Sanford Medical Center in Worthington with non-life-threatening injuries.
The Windom police, fire and ambulance departments assisted with the accident along with the Heron Lake police and fire departments and Westbrook Fire Department.
For more details on this story, see the Sept. 7 edition of the Cottonwood County Citizen and Citizen eEdition.
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Windom man dies in traffic accident
