Alcohol-involved head-on crash in central Minnesota kills 2, leaves others with life-threatening injuries
May 5—PINE RIVER, Minn. — Two people died, three suffered life-threatening injuries and the condition of another was unknown as of Sunday, May 5, after a head-on crash west of Pine River, Minnesota.
The crash was reported at 12:38 a.m. Sunday near the intersection of 24th Street Southwest and 36th Avenue Southwest in Cass County.
Kyle Daniel Jones, 32, of Bayport, Minnesota, was driving a 2020 Ford F150 pickup west on 24th Street and the truck collided head-on with a 2008 Pontiac G6 traveling east on 24th Street. The vehicles came to rest near where they crashed, the Minnesota State Patrol reported, but few other details were related in the initial crash report.
Jones and a passenger in the truck, Mandy Marie Tellinghuisen, 30, also of Bayport, both suffered life-threatening injuries and were transported to CHI St. Joseph's Health in Park Rapids, Minnesota. The State Patrol reported alcohol was involved with Jones.
Two people in the other vehicle were killed in the crash.
Royal William Noe, 39, of Hillman, who was driving the Pontiac, and his passenger Heather Faye Ceballos, 50, of Brainerd, died. There were three passengers in the Pontiac.
One of the passengers, 53-year-old Kelly Lee Kuschel of Pine River, suffered life-threatening injuries and he was taken to CHI St. Joseph's Health. The State Patrol said information on a 36-year-old man from Brainerd, the Pontiac's third passenger, would be released Monday morning.
It was unknown whether seat belts were in use for any of those in the crash.
Road conditions were dry at the time.
North Memorial Health Ambulance and the Cass County Sheriff's Department assisted at the scene.
