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Taylor Loffler, 18, dies after head-on collision on County Road 86 in New Prague, Minnesota

Date: 
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Area: 
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
Taylor Loffler was driving his truck on County Road 86 when his vehicle crossed the centerline and struck a trailer, then collided with a van head-on. Loffler died of his injuries. He was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident. The driver of the trailer, Joseph Bastyr, 32, was not hurt. The van's driver, Brien Stitt, 28, was airlifted to Hennepin County Medical Center with serious injuries.

Brittany Erding, 19, miraculously uninjured after driving car off of County Road 5 down a 30-foot drop into the icy Root River in Wykoff, MN

Date: 
Friday, January 9, 2015
Area: 
Rochester, MN-Mason City, IA-Austin, MN
It was about 7:00pm when Erding was driving home on an icy stretch of County Road 5 and lost control at a curve, which sent her car up and over an embankment and into the ice-filled Root River below. As her car filled with water, Erding quickly climbed onto the roof via the backseat and made the quick decision to walk on the pieces of floating ice to reach the shore, where she found help at a nearby farm house. A local sheriff said that wearing a seat belt was likely integral to Erdings survival and safety.

Tyler Hadley, 20, John Mangen, 18, Caleb Quesenberry, 17, Payton Adams, 17, killed, Kansas Adams, 19, Douglas Wiborg, 43, Jakob Wiborg, 9, Sydney Wiborg, 7, injured, after a two-car crash on icy Highway 14 near Sleepy Eye in Brown County, Minnesota

Date: 
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Area: 
Mankato, MN
The Minnesota State Patrol is identifying the four people killed Friday near Sleepy Eye on icy roads. It happened on Highway 14 in Brown County just after 8 p.m. A 2003 Pontiac Grand Prix was headed westbound on Highway 14, going into a curve heading southbound, when it lost control and entered into the opposite lane of traffic. It was hit broadside by a 1999 Dodge Ram headed northbound into the curve.

Katrina E. Maetzold, 13, dies in crash on way to school with 3 siblings on Highway 23 in Milaca, Minnesota

Date: 
Monday, November 18, 2013
Area: 
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
A brother driving himself and three siblings in his Milaca family to school north of the Twin Cities pulled his minivan into the path of a semitrailer truck less than a mile from their destination, leaving his 13-year-old sister dead in a broadside collision, authorities said. The crash occurred about 7:55 a.m. Tuesday at the T-intersection of Hwy. 23 and 127th Avenue, just west of Milaca, according to the State Patrol. Killed was Katrina E. Maetzold, 13, the patrol said. No one in the van was wearing seat belts, the patrol added.