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Spirit Lake, IA (KROC-AM News) - A southwest Minnesota woman and her one-year-old son were killed in a weekend traffic crash in northern Iowa.

The Iowa State Patrol says 29-year-old Mariah Nelson of Jackson was killed when her car collided with a pickup truck Saturday morning at an intersection along Highway 71 about 10 miles south of Jackson and just south of the Minnesota-Iowa border near Spirit Lake. The crash report indicates Nelson went through a stop sign and into the path of the pickup.

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She and her son, whose name has not been released, were fatally injured in the crash. Two other children in the car, five and six-year-old girls, were injured and were transported to a nearby hospital.

The driver of the pickup, 63-year-old Alan Weinzetl of Jackson and 58-year-old Teresa Chonko of Jackson, were also injured and transported to the same hospital. Information about their medical conditions is not been released.

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