Victim’s name released in fatal I-94 crash near Dickinson

STARK COUNTY, N.D. — A 50-year-old Dickinson girl was killed in a multi-vehicle crash early Monday morning, Jan. 16, on Interstate 94.

She was recognized Tuesday as Tana Marie Johnson.

In keeping with the North Dakota Freeway Patrol, a semitruck was touring westbound on I-94, 11 miles east of Dickinson, close to Gladstone, in heavy fog with patches of ice on the highway.

The motive force, Demetrius Arnez Chambers, 36, of Milwaukee, jackknifed his rig, a 2020 Freightliner, into the median closest to mile marker 75. Johnson, who was westbound in a 2012 Buick Enclave, drove beneath and hit the trailer on its left rear aspect at roughly 1:25 a.m. Monday, the patrol stated.

Johnson was pronounced useless on the scene. Chambers suffered no obvious accidents.

Each drivers have been sporting their seat belts on the time of the accident, first responders stated. Johnson’s physique was transported to the state Medical Examiner’s Workplace for an post-mortem.

The crash stays beneath investigation by the North Dakota Freeway Patrol.

A

GoFundMe web page

was created to assist Johnson’s household with funeral bills. It had already raised greater than $15,000 by Tuesday afternoon. The submit stated she didn’t have life insurance coverage, so any cash left over after the funeral shall be used to assist her three kids.

“Tana was one in every of a form… To know her was to like her,” the submit stated. “Her fast wit, loving coronary heart and limitless giving was a treasure to her household, associates and our neighborhood.”