By Associated Press - Wednesday, September 20, 2017

NEW ENGLAND, N.D. (AP) - In a story Sept. 20 about a fatal semitrailer crash in North Dakota, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Highway Patrol, misidentified the trucker who died. His name was Robert Lugan, not Richard Lugan.

A corrected version of the story is below:

Authorities ID Texas trucker killed in North Dakota crash

Authorities have identified a trucker from Texas who died in a crash in the western North Dakota oil patch

NEW ENGLAND, N.D. (AP) - Authorities have identified a trucker from Texas who died in a crash in the western North Dakota oil patch.

The Highway Patrol says 62-year-old Robert Lugan from Houston was hauling a load of pipe on state Highway 21 in Slope County on Monday morning when his semi hauling a flatbed trailer went into the ditch and rolled.

Lugan died at the scene west of the town of New England.

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