{"id":3296,"date":"2025-12-15T06:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2025-12-15T06:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:08:16","slug":"straight-river-township-dodge-strikes-ford-on-highway-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/straight-river-township-dodge-strikes-ford-on-highway-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight River Township: Dodge Strikes Ford on Highway 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"621\" data-end=\"1038\"><strong data-start=\"621\" data-end=\"666\">Straight River Township (trfnews.i234.me)<\/strong> \u2013 On December 12, 2025, at 3:30 PM, a crash occurred on Highway 71 near 110th Street in Straight River Township, Hubbard County. A 2013 Dodge Ram 1500, driven by 18-year-old Colin Lee Becker of Park Rapids, MN, made contact with a 2015 Ford Transit van, driven by 73-year-old Felix William Ness of Menahga, MN, while both vehicles were traveling northbound on Highway 71.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1040\" data-end=\"1448\">The collision resulted in non-life-threatening injuries to Ness, the driver of the Ford Transit, and his passengers, 9-year-old Jake Wesley-Allyn Gebhart and 9-year-old Connor Jason Kiser, both of Park Rapids, MN. All three were wearing seat belts and were transported to St. Joseph&#8217;s Hospital for treatment. Becker, the driver of the Dodge Ram, was also wearing his seat belt and was uninjured in the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1040\" data-end=\"1448\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3252 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/police20lights20generic_1512305380747_29804902_ver1.0_640_360_1528018208350-1.jpg_44312014_ver1.0_640_360_1531080306517-1.jpg_48021327_ver1.0_640_360_1531212102864-1.jpg_48143674_ver1.0-1-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/police20lights20generic_1512305380747_29804902_ver1.0_640_360_1528018208350-1.jpg_44312014_ver1.0_640_360_1531080306517-1.jpg_48021327_ver1.0_640_360_1531212102864-1.jpg_48143674_ver1.0-1-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/police20lights20generic_1512305380747_29804902_ver1.0_640_360_1528018208350-1.jpg_44312014_ver1.0_640_360_1531080306517-1.jpg_48021327_ver1.0_640_360_1531212102864-1.jpg_48143674_ver1.0-1.webp 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1450\" data-end=\"1658\">The road conditions at the time were snow-covered and icy, contributing to the accident. Park Rapids Fire Department, Park Rapids Police Department, and Hubbard County Sheriff&#8217;s Office responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1660\" data-end=\"1768\">For winter driving safety tips, visit the <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dot.state.mn.us\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1698\" data-end=\"1767\">Minnesota Department of Transportation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1770\" data-end=\"1837\">I&#8217;m Chris Harper reporting for <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1801\" data-end=\"1836\">TRF News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Straight River Township (trfnews.i234.me) \u2013 On December 12, 2025, at 3:30 PM, a crash occurred on Highway 71 near 110th Street in Straight River Township, Hubbard County. A 2013 Dodge Ram 1500, driven by 18-year-old Colin Lee Becker of Park Rapids, MN, made contact with a 2015 Ford Transit van, driven by 73-year-old Felix William&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/straight-river-township-dodge-strikes-ford-on-highway-71\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Straight River Township: Dodge Strikes Ford on Highway 71<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":null,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"default","_google_business_share_type":"default","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[16],"tags":[1791,3439,3703,894,3704,2297,3705,3702,3411,3707,824,3545,3706,1386,3701,3531,3501],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents","tag-accidents","tag-dodge","tag-dodge-ram-crash","tag-ford","tag-ford-transit-collision","tag-highway","tag-highway-71","tag-hubbard-county","tag-non-life-threatening-injuries","tag-park-rapids-police","tag-river","tag-snow-and-ice-road-conditions","tag-st-josephs-hospital","tag-straight","tag-straight-river-township","tag-strikes","tag-township","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}