A Grand Forks woman received minor injuries and released after her vehicle struck and killed a horse on Highway 2 east of Crookston Thursday night, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.
Joanne M. Butterfield, 50, was traveling west in a 2008 Chevy pickup near the intersection of County Road 46 around 8:31 p.m. when she hit the horse, which had got loose from a pasture a half mile away.
Butterfield's vehicle was totaled.
The horse was returned to its owner and the accident is still under investigation.
