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Zimmerman woman dies in fatal car crash in Nisswa – Brainerd Dispatch

NISSWA – A 35-year-old Zimmerman woman died Monday, May 27, in a two-vehicle crash on Highway 371 at the corner of Crow Wing County Highway 13 in Nisswa.

The Minnesota State Patrol reported that the accident occurred around 11:47 a.m. on Monday. According to the accident report, a 2016 Chevrolet Impala was traveling south on Highway 371, turned left onto County Highway 13 and failed to yield to a 2015 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck traveling north. The vehicles collided at the intersection.

A passenger in the Impala, Ashley Erin Gamm, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the Impala, Adley Grace Belanger, 16, Zimmerman, suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to Essentia Health-St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Brainerd. A second passenger in the Impala, Braidyn Thomas Johnson, 16, Zimmerman, suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale.

The driver of the Silverado, Zachery Allen Knoblauch, 29, of Breezy Point, and his two passengers – Clarissa Nadine Knoblauch, 29, of Breezy Point, and Hadley Jean Knoblauch, a toddler – were not injured, state police reported.

All those involved in the accident were wearing seat belts and the airbags in the vehicles were deployed.

The Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Office assisted at the scene of the accident.

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