MICHIGAN, N.D. (AP) — The Highway Patrol has identified a Fort Totten man who died when the car he was driving struck a moose on U.S. Highway 2 in northeastern North Dakota.

Authorities say 37-year-old Lavern Littlewind Sr. died at the scene about a mile east of the town of Michigan on Monday night. The moose was killed instantly.

Littlewind's 3-, 5- and 10-year-old sons were passengers in the car. They were taken to a Grand Forks hospital with unspecified injuries.

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