{"id":8777,"date":"2026-01-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/?p=8777"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:48:42","slug":"thief-river-falls-pickup-hits-pole-on-icy-horace-ave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/thief-river-falls-pickup-hits-pole-on-icy-horace-ave\/","title":{"rendered":"Thief River Falls: Pickup Hits Pole on Icy Horace Ave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thief River Falls<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trfnews.i234.me<\/a>) \u2014 Police responded to a reported crash near the intersection of Horace Avenue and Fourth Street early New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the call came in at <strong>6:22 a.m.<\/strong> on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<h2>What police say happened<\/h2>\n<p>Police said <strong>Tristin Breiland<\/strong> of Thief River Falls was driving a <strong>2004 Dodge Ram 1500<\/strong> southbound on Horace Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Breiland lost control of the pickup on an icy roadway.<\/p>\n<p>The report says the pickup then struck a <strong>light pole<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8778\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8778\" style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8778\" src=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Thief-River-Falls-Pickup-Hits-Pole-on-Icy-Horace-Ave-300x200.png\" alt=\"Thief River Falls: Pickup Hits Pole on Icy Horace Ave\" width=\"399\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Thief-River-Falls-Pickup-Hits-Pole-on-Icy-Horace-Ave-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Thief-River-Falls-Pickup-Hits-Pole-on-Icy-Horace-Ave-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Thief-River-Falls-Pickup-Hits-Pole-on-Icy-Horace-Ave-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Thief-River-Falls-Pickup-Hits-Pole-on-Icy-Horace-Ave.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thief River Falls: Pickup Hits Pole on Icy Horace Ave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>No injuries reported<\/h2>\n<p>Police reported <strong>no known injuries<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>No other details were listed in the initial report.<\/p>\n<h2>Winter driving reminder<\/h2>\n<p>Ice can be hard to see in early morning hours.<\/p>\n<p>Slow down and leave extra space.<\/p>\n<p>Brake early and steer gently.<\/p>\n<p>Road and safety resources:<\/p>\n<p>MnDOT Winter Driving |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/511mn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">511 Minnesota Road Conditions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m Chris Harper reporting for <a href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TRF News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thief River Falls (trfnews.i234.me) \u2014 Police responded to a reported crash near the intersection of Horace Avenue and Fourth Street early New Year\u2019s Day. According to the report, the call came in at 6:22 a.m. on Jan. 1. What police say happened Police said Tristin Breiland of Thief River Falls was driving a 2004 Dodge&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/thief-river-falls-pickup-hits-pole-on-icy-horace-ave\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thief River Falls: Pickup Hits Pole on Icy Horace Ave<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8778,"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":[1791,4873,4283,8420,827,7662,562,2597,8418,1457,2540,8386,2176,777,3520,6541,824,825,778,8419],"class_list":["post-8777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents","tag-accidents","tag-ave","tag-crash-report","tag-dodge-ram-1500","tag-falls","tag-fourth-street","tag-hits","tag-horace","tag-horace-avenue","tag-icy","tag-icy-roads","tag-light-pole-crash","tag-no-injuries","tag-pennington-county","tag-pickup","tag-pole","tag-river","tag-thief","tag-thief-river-falls","tag-tristin-breiland","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777","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=8777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10913,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions\/10913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}