One person was seriously injured and two individuals sustained non life-threatening injures in a three-vehicle crash in Cass County on Thursday morning.

According the Minnesota State Patrol, the accident happened around 7:20 Thursday morning when a 1990 Pontiac Bonneville, traveling southbound on state Highway 371 slowed to turn onto 137th Street and was rear-ended by a 2016 Toyota Sienna. The Sienna pushed the Bonneville into the northbound lane of the highway, where it was struck by a 2016 Ford pickup pulling a boat and trailer.

The driver of the Pontiac, 55- year- old Emily Woodfield, of Cass Lake, was seriously injured. Woodfield was taken to Sanford Bemidji Medical Center. 56- year- old David Fineday, of Minneapolis and 37- year- old Leo Denasha, of Deer River, Minnesota,—both passengers in the Toyota—sustained non life-threatening injures. Denasha was also taken to Sanford in Bemidji. Fineday was taken to Sanford Medical Center in Fargo, N.D. Neither the driver of the Toyota nor the three people traveling in the Ford were hurt.

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