Severe rollover crash near Jamestown under investigation, highway patrol seeks witnesses

A severe rollover crash near Jamestown has drawn a fresh witness request from the North Dakota Highway Patrol as investigators work to sort out what happened in Stutsman County. The wreck happened near Jamestown on Sunday evening, putting another serious highway incident in the same area that saw a deadly rollover less than two years ago.

Troopers are asking anyone who saw the crash or has information about it to come forward. The appeal underscores how quickly investigators can be left piecing together a highway scene from fragments of witness accounts, especially when a rollover happens away from direct traffic cameras and in a rural county where motorists may be the only people who saw the moments before impact.

The new crash comes after a fatal rollover on Interstate 94 about seven miles west of Jamestown on July 15, 2024, shortly before 5 p.m. In that case, the North Dakota Highway Patrol said a Suburban lost control after being passed by a semi and rolled into a water-filled slough. Two boys, ages 10 and 7, were killed.

The driver, a 30-year-old woman from Cleveland, North Dakota, was seriously injured, along with a 9-year-old girl who was taken to Sanford Hospital in Fargo. Four other children suffered minor injuries. Authorities said that crash, like the one near Jamestown now under investigation, remained a case in which witness information could help fill in key details about how the vehicle lost control.

For Stutsman County, the pattern is sobering. Interstate 94 and the roads feeding Jamestown carry local traffic, farm traffic and long-distance travelers every day, and a rollover on that corridor can become a major public-safety event in seconds. With another severe crash near town now under review, troopers are relying on anyone with firsthand knowledge to help reconstruct the chain of events and determine what happened on the roadway.