BELGRADE, Minn. 鈥� A 76-year-old man died at St. Cloud Hospital from injuries sustained in a side-by-side off-road vehicle crash Tuesday morning, Sept. 3, near Belgrade in west-central Minnesota.
Daniel Schwieters was driving a 2002 Polaris Ranger southbound on County Road 175 and was turning left onto 265th Street around 7:53 a.m. when he was struck from behind by a 2002 Ford Explorer. Schwieters was ejected from the ATV and sustained a severe head injury, the Stearns County Sheriff's Office said.
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The driver of the Explorer, Juan Hernandez Martinez, 27, of Melrose was evaluated and released at the scene.
The sheriff's report said Schwieters appeared not to be wearing the vehicle's supplied seat belt.
Belgrade is 25 miles north of Willmar.
