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Two juveniles fatally injured at Metigoshe

By Scott Wagar

07/10/2012

Two children were fatally injured early Sunday morning at Lake Metigoshe after a driver lost control of his truck in Hahn’s Bay and took the lives of two juveniles while injuring two others.
According to the North Dakota Highway Patrol, Juan Acosta, 30, of Newburg, was in Hahn’s Bay driving too fast at 1:10 a.m. on Sunday morning in his 2006 Ford F-250 Super Crew truck and lost control of his vehicle while going around a curve. Acosta’s truck drove into a campsite, over a tent and crashed into a tree.

There were four occupants in the tent, of which three were juvenile boys and an adult male. Two of the juveniles, ages five and nine, from El Paso, Texas, were pronounced deceased at St. Andrew’s Health Center, while another juvenile from El Paso, Texas, age nine, sustained minor injuries.
The adult male, Juan Ruiz, age 28, received serious injuries and was air lifted to Trinity Hospital in Minot.

Two other men, Jesus Torrez, 28, of Newburg, and James Klundt, 26, of Newburg, were with Acosta in the truck. Acosta sustained minor injuries, while Torrez and Klundt were unharmed.

Presently, the crash is still under investigation by the North Dakota Highway Patrol and charges are pending against Acosta.