Five people are dead after a head-on collision between an SUV and a transit van carrying 13 members of the same family in southwestern Minnesota.

The crash happened around 4:45 p.m. Friday, March 20, on Highway 71 near 240th Street in Germantown Township, about 17 miles north of Windom, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.

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The driver of a 2016 GMC Terrain SUV was traveling northbound on Highway 71 and collided head-on with a southbound 2019 Ford Transit Van. The SUV driver, Martin Nickolas Hanson, 67, of Springfield, was killed. Four people in the van also died.