MINOT, N.D. (KFGO) – The Highway Patrol has released the names of the people involved in a fatal motorcycle crash four miles west of Minot Thursday afternoon.
Vernon Eckel, 62, and Pamela Eckel, 64 – both from Burlington, North Dakota – were killed when their motorcycle crashed into a car that tried to cross Highway 2.
The driver of the car, 36-year-old Adam Trueblood of Minot, was stopped at a stop sign and began to cross the highway when the motorcycle hit his car.
Both riders on the motorcycle, driven by Vernon Eckel, were thrown from the bike. Pamela Eckel died at the scene. Vernon Eckel died at Trinity Hospital in Minot. Neither was wearing a helmet.
Trueblood was not hurt.
The crash is under investigation.
