A driver was killed Saturday night after his vehicle crashed into farm equipment being pulled by a tractor in Meeker County.
According to the Minnesota State Patrol, the crash occurred about 10:20 p.m. Saturday.
Authorities say Kevin Scott Erickson, 62, of Darwin, was heading north on Minnesota 15 near Collinwood Township when he struck a planter that had just turned onto the roadway from a field.
Erickson, who was driving a 2008 Ford Escape, crashed into the right rear side of the planter. He died at the scene.
The tractor driver, Peter Elvin Peterson, 56, of Dassel, Minn., escaped injury.