Patrol identifies Fessenden, ND, man killed in tractor accident

Mar. 19—CATHAY, N.D. — The North Dakota Highway Patrol has identified the 60-year-old Fessenden, North Dakota, man who died after he was ejected from a tractor on Monday morning, March 18, about 6 miles west of Cathay.

Mitchell Lloyd was driving a 2021 Deutz-Fahr 6155 tractor westbound on the 4800 Block of 9th Street Northeast, which is a dry gravel road, at about 9 a.m. Monday, the patrol said in a press release. The patrol said the tractor left the roadway, entered the north ditch and continued through a farm field before coming to rest at the edge of a field in the ditch.

Lloyd was ejected and pronounced dead at the scene, the patrol said.

The highway patrol is investigating the accident.