article_snippet: A couple travelling in their car were killed after multiple hay bales slid off a semi-truck along a country road in Minnesota crashing into their vehicle.
article_snippet: It's not clear how multiple hay bales came loose but the accident occurred as a semi-truck went around a bend just after 9 a.m. on Saturday morning.
article_snippet: Teresa Erickson, 52, and her husband Dale, 59, were driving Teresa Erickson, 52, and her husband Dale, 59 pickup in the opposite direction when Teresa Erickson, 52, and her husband Dale, 59 were unable to avoid the hay.
article_snippet: The couple passed the truck carrying the hay along a curve on Houston County Road 9 northeast of Houston, Minnesota just after 9 a.m. on Saturday .
article_snippet: Hay bales vary greatly in weight, depending not only on dimensions but density.
article_snippet: A federal study analyzed seven deaths in Minnesota in the mid-1990s associated with large hay bales and found that Hay bales ranged from 750 to 1,500 pounds.
highlights_snippet: As truck went around a curve on a road in Minnesota a road in Minnesota lost a road in Minnesota load of hay
highlights_snippet: A pickup headed in the opposite direction was hit by one of the bales .
  