Former Mountain Lake woman fatality in Tuesday night crash
A former Mountain Lake woman, 21-year-old Hannah Stoesz, received fatal injuries in a Tuesday night, March 7 accident in the east bound lanes on I-90, at Mile Post 99 in Fraser Township in Martin County, approximately two miles west of Fairmont.
Two sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and two semi-trucks were involved in the 7:50 p.m. crash.
According to a Minnesota State Patrol report, a 2006 Honda CR-V, driven by 48-year-old Mason Wendland of Baltic, South Dakota, was going the wrong way, heading west bound in the east bound lanes, when it struck a 2011 Ford Escape traveling east bound, driven by Tyler Schoborg, 19, of Westbrook, of which Stoesz was a passenger. A 2013 Mack 600 semi truck and trailer, driven by 33-year-old Jacob Oeltjenbruns of Granada, was also east bound on I-90, and began to pull onto the east bound shoulder. At the same time, a 2016 Kenworth diesel semi truck and trailer, driven by Nathan Grela, 39, of Billings, Montana, also travelling east bound, moved into the left lane to pass the Mack. The Kenworth came upon the crash scene, swerved to the right, lightly side-swiping the Honda CR-V, running into the back of the Mack. Both the Kenworth and Mack ended up in the ditch.
Stoesz was deceased at the scene, while Schoborg, the driver of the Ford Escape, is hospitalized in St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester. Wendland, the driver of the Honda CR-V received non-life-threatening injuries. The report stated that Stoesz was not wearing a seat belt, and alcohol was involved in the case of Wendland.
Oeltjenbruns and Grela had no apparent injuries.
Stoesz, a 2014 graduate of Mountain Lake Public High School, was a 2016 graduate of Minnesota West Community and Technical College in Jackson. She was living in Jackson and working as a cosmteologist at Royal Treatment in Jackson. She is the daughter of Jerome and Marilyn Stoesz of Mountain Lake.
Assisting the Minnesota State Patrol were the Martin County Sheriff’s Office and the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
