Updated: 11:36 AM CST February 1, 2021 HAY SPRINGS, Neb. — Authorities in western Nebraska say two Minnesota residents have died in a crash near Hay Springs. The Nebraska State Patrol says the crash happened early Friday morning on State Highway 87, south of Hay Springs. Investigators say a pickup truck driven by a 45-year-old Hays Springs man ran a stop sign at a highway intersection and hit a small sport utility vehicle that was traveling on the highway. The patrol says the two people in the SUV, 22-year-old Remington Harder of Hutchinson, Minnesota, and 24-year-old Josey Tensen, of Glenwood, Minnesota, were thrown from the car and died at the scene.