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Head-on Crash Near Lakeville Leaves One Driver Dead, Other Hospitalized

The crash occurred at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday on County Road 86, just west of Iberia Avenue.

A 31-year-old man from Princeton Junction, N.J., was killed Tuesday morning when his car collided head-on with a pickup truck south of Lakeville.

At the time of the crash, at the time of the crash, Atahan Atay was driving westbound on County Road 86 in Eureka Township, the Star Tribune is reporting.

The driver of the pickup truck, Alan D. Benson, 51, of New Market, was taken by helicopter to Regions Hospital for non-life threatening injuries.

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The Dakota County Sheriff's Office has not yet said which vehicle left its lane.


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