MINNEWAUKAN, N.D. - A 24-year-old Colorado woman died Friday in a one-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 281, north of here.
The North Dakota Highway Patrol said Tanya Broden of Fort Collins was traveling north Thursday night around 10:30 p.m. across the junction of Highway 19, when her car left the road and immediately entered the water northwest of the intersection.
Authorities received a call around 8:37 a.m. Friday from a passerby who discovered a portion of the vehicle protruding from the water.
Broden, the vehicle's lone occupant, was transported to Mercy Hospital in Devils Lake, where she was pronounced dead, authorities said.
Broden is a former Churchs Ferry resident, according to a death notice from Nelson Funeral Home in Leeds.
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The crash remains under investigation, authorities said.
