Car-Semi Crash Near Brownton

A Waconia man is dead after a car-semi crash near Brownton Sunday.   The state patrol says it was reported at 7:56 a.m. Sunday on Highway 212 at Tagus Avenue, west of Brownton.   A Honda Civic, driven by  60-year-old Wade Halvorson, was westbound on Highway 212 and a semi was eastbound when they collided.   Halvorson was killed in the crash.   The driver of the semi, 39-year-old Jarod Jakel of Sacred Heart was not injured, but a passenger, 5-year-old Mckinlee Jakel was taken to the Hutchinson Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.