Walnut Grove man injured when pickup, semi collide on Highway 71 Tuesday

A Walnut Grove man was injured when a pickup and a semi collided early Tuesday morning in Cottonwood County. The crash happened on Highway 71 at 4:30 a.m. between Sanborn and Windom.

A Minnesota State Patrol crash report says the semi was northbound and the pickup was southbound when the vehicles collided just south of Highway 30.

The pickup driver, Meng Yang, age 23, of Walnut Grove, was transported to Windom Area Health with non-life threatening injuries. The semi driver, Douglas Jay Vandehoef, age 62, of Windom, wasn’t injured.

Assisting on the scene were the Windom Ambulance and Police Department, and Jeffers Fire Department.