Fargo man killed in wrong-way crash on Interstate 29 Sunday morning

FARGO (KFGO) – A fatal head-on collision was reported early Sunday morning on Interstate 29, about 30 miles north of Fargo. 

On Nov. 12 at 12:33 a.m., emergency dispatchers received a report of a wrong-way driver on the highway near mile marker 74. 

At 12:49 a.m. the pickup was still northbound in the southbound lanes and struck a semi head-on. The pickup came to rest on the outside shoulder of the southbound interstate, at mile marker 93, facing northwest. 

The semi, driven by a 28-year-old man and a 22-year-old male co-driver from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, came to rest in the median facing southeast. The driver of the pickup, 39-year-old Siemubonue Torh of Fargo, was pronounced dead at the scene.  The two men in the semi were uninjured. 

Multiple agencies responded. North Dakota Highway Patrol, Traill County Sheriff’s Office, Hillsboro Ambulance Service, and Trail County Coroner’s Office.

The crash remains under investigation by the North Dakota Highway Patrol.

Story by Ashley Henley / KFGO