Victims in deadly crash on U.S. 131 identified as father and son

CONSTANTINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- A fatal crash on U.S. 131 in St. Joseph County claimed the lives of a father and son from Middlebury on Thursday.

Michigan State Police were called to Youngs Prairie Road in Constantine Township after a pickup truck carrying 58-year-old Albert Fields Jr. and his passenger, 15-year-old Albert Fields III, crossed the centerline and crashed head-on with a semi-truck, according to reports.

The crash killed both Fields Jr. and Fields III.

The driver of the semi suffered minor injuries.

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