A 70-year-old pickup driver was injured on Friday morning, October 23, when his vehicle collided with a semi-truck while merging onto eastbound Interstate 90 near Worthington in Nobles County, southwestern Minnesota, according to the Minnesota State Patrol as reported by Radio Works and KDOM Radio.
Source: Minnesota State Patrol via Radio Works
The crash was reported at 10:51 a.m. near milepost 45. The State Patrol said a 2022 Volvo semi operated by Ibrahim Grahovic, 55, of Waterloo, Iowa, was travelling eastbound on I-90 when a 2019 Chevrolet Silverado operated by Jon Lynn Prestin, 70, of Belle Plaine, Minnesota, merging from Minnesota Highway 60 onto eastbound I-90, collided with it. Both men are adults named in the Patrol's account as carried by local reporting.
Source: Minnesota State Patrol via Radio Works
Prestin was taken to Sanford Worthington Medical Center with a non-life-threatening injury, the Patrol said. Grahovic was not injured. KDOM's account of the Patrol report added that roads were wet at the time. Sanford Ambulance, the Worthington Fire Department and the Worthington Police Department assisted at the scene. No charges or cause were announced in the Patrol's account.
Source: Minnesota State Patrol via KDOM Radio
The merge point where Highway 60 meets I-90 east of Worthington is a regular route for freight traffic crossing southern Minnesota. Drivers merging onto the interstate in wet conditions are urged to match speed, check blind spots around large trucks and leave extra following distance — general safety guidance, not a finding about this crash, whose circumstances remain under Patrol review.