A car occupied by three college students slid on a slick interstate east of Fargo in a crash that killed the driver and a 19-year-old passenger who was studying to become a doctor and return to the small town where he grew up to practice medicine, authorities said Sunday.
The wreck occurred shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday on westbound Interstate 94 in Glyndon Township, according to the State Patrol.
Passenger Carson D. Roney, 19, of Oakes, N.D., was killed. The motorist who died was identified as 18-year-old Danie L. Thomssen, of Fargo.
Another passenger, 18-year-old Haley L. Visto, also from Oakes, was hospitalized with noncritical injuries.
The car was heading west on Interstate 94, went out of control on a road surface described as either snowy or icy and hit a guardrail in the median, the patrol said.
Roney and Thomssen were sophomores at North Dakota State University, according to the student directory for the college, located in Fargo. Both were biology majors. Visto also is a sophomore at NDSU.
Roney intended to become a family medicine doctor, then return to Oakes and practice medicine and take over the family farm, according to a brief biography of him released in May by the provider of a college financial aid award.
At Oakes High School, he played basketball, football and ran track, and also was a Boys State delegate.
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