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Sources: Teen Killed In Head-On Semi Crash In Otter Tail Co.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A 16-year-old driver is dead after a semi-truck crossed the centerline of an Otter Tail County road early Thursday morning, a source tells WCCO.

The Minnesota State Patrol says the fatal crash happened at about 6 a.m. Thursday on Highway 210 near 469th Avenue in Vining.

Sources say the victim was a Henning Secondary School student who was driving a Chevrolet Impala to the school to lift weights. The semi struck the teen head-on.

The state patrol identified the semi driver as 34-year-old Jason Rudolf Vadner from Wheaton. He suffered non-life threatening injuries.

The crash is under investigation.

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