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Thursday, April 3, 2014

A Cannon Falls man was seriously injured Friday morning when the pickup he was driving was hit by a straight truck west of Cannon Falls.

Curtis A. Rauvola, 75, was taken to Regions Hospital in St. Paul, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.

The patrol said he was driving west on 300th Street Way when he pulled out in front of the truck, which was being driven north on Minnesota Highway 56 by Terry L. Walker, of Lodi, Wis. The pickup was hit in the driver's door. Walker was not injured.

The accident was reported at 10:16 a.m.

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Thursday, April 3, 2014

A Hopkins woman has been identified as one of two people killed after a speeding car crashed into the back of a semi on eastbound I-694 in Fridley Friday night.

The rear-end crash was reported around 8:15 p.m. on the interstate at Matterhorn Drive.

According to the state patrol, the driver of the 2007 Chrysler 300 and Patrice Hooks, 31, of Hopkins, a passenger, were both killed in the crash. Hooks was wearing a seat belt and her airbag did deploy.

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Thursday, April 3, 2014
A 57-year-old rural Red Wing man died Friday morning after the snowmobile he was driving collided with a pickup. Delbert Hardy was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Goodhue County Sheriff's Office. According to a release from Sheriff Scott McNurlin, Hardy was entering Goodhue County Road 3 from the lawn of his home at 25465 County Road 3 when he was struck by an eastbound pickup. Hardy was wearing a helmet. The pickup, which had a plow attached to the front, was driven by Duane Stemmann, 66, also of rural Red Wing. Stemmann wasn't injured, the release said.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

A 17-year-old boy died Saturday at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale after a car crash two days earlier in central Minnesota.

Charles Mellema, 17, of Randall, Minn., was less than a half mile away from his house when police say he collided with another car just before 11 p.m. Thursday, sending his car into a ditch and toppling a power line pole.

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Authorities on Friday released the identity of the person who was fatally struck by a train in St. Cloud a day earlier. Carol J. Oltz, 52, of St. Cloud, died Thursday morning after the 100-car freight train hit her on the east side of the city, police said. The incident brought a halt to the eastbound BNSF train, which was hauling crude oil, blocking motor vehicle traffic on St. Germain Street and on 7th Street SE. for a few hours in the morning. An Amtrak Empire Builder train also had to sit tight for about 1 hour and 40 minutes while investigators collected evidence at the scene.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

A car ran a red light and struck a Metro Transit bus Thursday morning at a south Minneapolis intersection, sending the bus crashing into a tree and leaving three people injured, authorities said.

A car ran a red light and struck a Metro Transit bus Thursday morning at a south Minneapolis intersection, sending the bus crashing into a tree and leaving three people injured, authorities said.

The crash occurred shortly after 8 a.m. on a Route 17 bus heading west on 24th Street at Blaisdell Avenue, said Metro Transit spokesman John Siqveland.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

A New Prague woman is dead after a crash in Carver County on Wednesday.

The crash occurred at 9:23 p.m. on County Road 11 near White Pine Way.

According to the Minnesota State Patrol, 18-year-old Mickenzy Segler was driving a Chevy Malibu when she lost control of the vehicle and slid sideways into the northbound lane.

Thirty-two-year-old Robert MacDonald of Carver was driving a Dodge truck, and tried to move out of the way, but hit the passenger side of Segler's car.

The state patrol says roads were icy at the scene of the crash.

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Sunday, March 16, 2014

In the Sibley County crash, one driver was killed and another was injured when two vehicles collided head-on shortly after 6 a.m. on Hwy.15 a mile south of Winthrop and about 18 miles north of New Ulm.

Charlan Kaml, 41, of Kimball, Minn., the driver of a northbound 1999 Buick Regal, was killed, and John T. Lott, 33, of Winthrop, who was driving a southbound 2013 Ford pickup, was injured when their vehicles collided head-on in the southbound lane. Kaml was not wearing a seat belt; Lott was.

No one else was involved. Roads were dry at the time, the patrol said.

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Sunday, March 16, 2014
A 7-year-old boy was hospitalized after he was hit by a car in Central Minnesota on Monday morning. The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office was called to the 21900 block of County Road 7 in St. Augusta around 7:26 a.m. Monday on a report of a crash. According to the sheriff, the boy was crossing the street to get onto a school bus when he was hit by a 2004 Pontiac Bonneville driven by 60-year-old Margaret Hartnick of St. Augusta. The school bus was southbound on County Road 7 and was picking up three kids at that address, and the Pontiac was heading northbound.
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Saturday, March 15, 2014
A St. Peter woman, her 5-year-old daughter, and a Marion, South Dakota man died Sunday after a head-on collision on Highway 169, southwest of the metro. The crash occurred at 1 p.m. near milepost 58 in Nicollet County, between St. Peter and Mankato. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, 36-year-old Lindi Paul of St. Peter was driving a Dodge Caliber when she lost control of the vehicle and it crossed the center median, crashing head-on with a Ford F-150.