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Car Vs. Semi Collision Sends Two To The Hospital

October 07, 2025




(Windom, Mn.)– Two people were hurt in a collision involving a car and a semi Monday evening in Windom.

The Minnesota state Patrol says 72-year-old Bernard Thissen of Mahtomedi, Minnesota was driving a 2025 Freightliner semi and 25-year-old Cierra Angel Amanda Hjermstad of Windom was driving a 2008 Ford Escape when the two collided at the intersection of Highway 71 and 10th Street.

Hjermstad and a one-year-old child in her vehicle were taken to the Windom hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The collision took place at 10:30 pm.

The Windom Police Department, Windom Fire Department, Windom Ambulance and the Cottonwood County Sheriff’s Office assisted on the scene.