Driver killed in crash with motorhome

• Fatal crash

Echo Press photo by Raeshel Betterman Emergency responders removed debris around the Chevrolet Avalanche that struck a motorhome south of Brandon Sunday afternoon.

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A 55-year-old Prior Lake man was killed in a two-vehicle crash near Brandon shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday.

Bruce Alan Monson was driving a Chevrolet Avalanche south of Brandon on County Road 7 when he struck a northbound motorhome driven by Gale Eldon Jacobson, 71, of Fostoria, Iowa, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.

Monson was pronounced dead at the scene. Jacobson wasn’t hurt but a passenger in the motorhome, Kathleen Dianne Shatto, 64, was transported to the Douglas County Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Assisting at the scene were sheriff’s deputies, Brandon Fire Department, Garfield Fire Department, Minnesota State Patrol and North Ambulance.

The accident remains under investigation.

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