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70-year-old on tractor killed in southern Minnesota crash

70-year-old man killed while riding tractor
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FOSTER TOWNSHIP, Minn. -- Authorities say a 70-year-old man driving a tractor was killed in a crash in southern Minnesota Tuesday night.

The Minnesota State Patrol said Michael Wegner was heading north on Highway 22 in Foster Township just before 8 p.m.

He was traveling ahead of a California family in a van. The state patrol said the two vehicles collided, but did not say how the crash happened.

Wegner died at the scene.

The van's occupants -- 45-year-old woman and two teenage boys -- were taken to an Albert Lea hospital. They are all expected to be OK.

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