WAHPETON, N.D. - Law enforcement here responded to two separate crashes involving the same vehicle in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Oct. 3.

According to a Richland County Sheriff's Office report, both crashes occurred about 5:43 a.m. on Highway 13, about two miles east of Interstate 94.

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In the first crash, a car driven by Cooper Illies, 21, of Lidgerwood, N.D., was travelling east on Highway 13, the report said.

The car encountered mud on the road, lost control and collided with a semi-truck loaded with sugar beets, the report said.

Illies, who was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash, was taken to CHI St. Francis Health in Breckenridge, Minn., with non-life threatening injuries.

The driver of the semi, Stephen Allmendinger, 23, Mooreton, N.D., was not injured.

A short time later, a different semi loaded with sugar beets struck the same car, which was disabled and unoccupied in the passing lane, the report said.

The driver of the second semi, Grady Mauch, 21, also of Mooreton, did not suffer any injuries.