Police identify victim from fatal UTV crash in western North Dakota

MCKENZIE COUNTY, N.D. — Officials have released the name of a North Dakota man who died following a crash between a pickup and a UTV in McKenzie County southwest of Watford City on Wednesday, June 21, 2023.

Travis Gudmunsen, a 39-year-old man from Arnegard, North Dakota, died after he was thrown from his UTV following a crash just after 8 a.m.

Gudmunsen had been traveling south on 133rd Avenue Northwest in his Honda Pioneer UTV, according to a release from the North Dakota Highway Patrol, when he failed to yield at the intersection of County Road 30 and was struck by a Ford pickup truck.

The truck driver, 25-year old Trenton Coy from Sidney, Montana, had been driving east on County Road 30 when he T-boned the UTV. Coy was wearing a seat belt and was uninjured in the crash, the patrol said.

Gudmunsen was pronounced dead on scene, the patrol said. He was not using restraints.

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