Both drivers were killed when pickup trucks collided head-on in northern Minnesota’s Iron Range, authorities said.

St. The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office said the collision happened around 8:50 a.m. Thursday in the 9100 block of Biss Road, just west of Britt.

Frank Bertram Ratliff, 76, of Angora, Minn., was driving east on Biss when he apparently drifted onto the right shoulder, overcorrected and struck a westbound pickup truck driven by Sheriff Steven Craig Shoden, 69, of Virginia, Minn. The office said.

Emergency responders pronounced both men dead at the scene.