WAHPETON, N.D. -- North Dakota Highway Patrol has released the name of man killed in an accident on Tuesday.
The man, identified as 71-year-old William Lyman of Ayr, N.D., drove his semi off Interstate 29 about 14 miles southwest of Wahpeton near mile marker 19, the patrol said in a release.
The release also stated that the 2012 International truck veered off the road, entered the west ditch and continued into a field before vaulting over a drainage ditch.
Lyman was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Breckenridge, Minn., where he was pronounced dead.