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Two injured, driver charged after UTV crash in eastern North Dakota – InForum

KATHRYN, N.D. — A man and a woman were injured when the man lost control of the utility task vehicle (UTV) he was driving and it overturned near here, according to the North Dakota Highway Patrol.

Driver Clay Hatlewick, a 30-year-old Yipsilanti man, and his passenger Tiffany Winson, a 36-year-old Jamestown woman, were both injured in the crash in a muddy field on Saturday, Aug. 17, at about 4:22 p.m. He was not taken to the hospital, but she was taken to Mercy Hospital in Valley City with non-life-threatening injuries. Neither was wearing a seat belt.

According to the Highway Patrol, which is still investigating the accident, Hatlewick was charged with drunken driving and vehicular assault.

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