Motorcyclist Michael Albert Scheff, 57, injured in crash with car on Highway 14 in Mankato, Minnesota
Motorcyclist hurt in Hwy 14 crash
Scheff was eastbound on Highway 14 on a 2004 Kawaski Road Star when the vehicle in front of him — a 2004 Ford Taurus also heading eastbound — slowed because there was "an individual clearing debris from the right lane of Hwy 14," the Patrol report stated. Scheff then rear-ended the Taurus.
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