NDSU provides memorial journals for classmates of two biology students killed in crash – INFORUM

The NDSU department they were studying under is giving their classmates a way to deal with their grief.

Danie Thomssen, 18, was from Bismarck, and Carson Roney, 19, was from Oakes. They met through Roney's high school friend Haley Visto, who was Thomssen's roommate at NDSU.

For the next few days in Room 218 of Stevens Hall, the NDSU's biological sciences department will provide journals so students can write their condolences or share memories of Thomssen and Roney. The journals will go to the families of the teenagers.

"Our hope was to provide a way for the campus community to grieve together," the head of the department said in a statement.

Thomssen was driving Saturday when she lost control of her car on an icy patch of Interstate 94 just east of Moorhead and slid into a guardrail, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.

Visto was also injured in the crash and was still hospitalized Monday, but she is expected to survive, troopers said Sunday.

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