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Duwane Kramer, 78, killed after he suffers a medical emergency and crashes his vehicle into the median wall on U.S. 52 near Rochester, Minnesota

Date: 
Monday, March 31, 2014
Area: 
Rochester, MN-Mason City, IA-Austin, MN
A 78-year-old man reportedly suffered severe symptoms from a medical condition while driving on U.S. 52 in Rochester on Monday, causing him to crash into a median wall. Duwane Kramer, of Rochester, was northbound when he "suffered a medical condition" and veered off the highway near Civic Center Drive Northwest, according to a Minnesota State Patrol report. Kramer died at the scene. The crash was reported at 5:45 p.m. Rochester firefighters and police, Olmsted County sheriff's deputies and a Gold Cross Ambulance crew responded to the crash.

Raul Caceres Calderon, 45, injured, transported to hospital, after a single-car crash on icy eastbound I-90 near St. Charles.

Date: 
Monday, March 31, 2014
Area: 
La Crosse-Eau Claire, WI
A Brooklyn Center man was injured early Tuesday morning when the vehicle he was driving east on Interstate 90 near St. Charles hit an icy patch and went into the median. The Minnesota State Patrol said Raul Caceres Calderon, 45, was taken to Mayo Clinic Hospital — Saint Marys campus in Rochester. The accident was reported at 3:45 a.m.

Charles Mellema, 17,dies of his injuries, Helen Pfeffer, 54, injured, transported to hospital, after a two-car crash at an intersection on Superior Ave. in Randell.

Date: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Area: 
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN

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.

Carol J. Oltz, 52, killed after she is struck by a freight train hauling oil cars while walking on the tracks near St. Germain Street in St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Area: 
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
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.

3 people injured, taken to hospital, after a car, that ran a red light, and a Metro transit bus collide at an intersection in south Minneapolis.

Date: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Area: 
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN

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.

Mickenzy Segler, 18, killed, Robert MacDonald 32, seriously injured, after a two car crash on icy County Road 11 near Carver.

Date: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Area: 
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN

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.

Charlan Kaml, 41, killed, John T. Lott, 33, injured, taken to hospital, after their two cars collide on Highway 15, near Winthrop.

Date: 
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Area: 
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN

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.

7-year-old boy injured after he is struck by a car on County Road 7 while walking to his school bus in St. Augusta, Minnesota

Date: 
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Area: 
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
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.

Lindi Paul, 36, Emma Paul, 5, Michael Oboyle, 65, killed, Annabelle Oboyle, 4, Kathrym Oboyle, 65, Owen Oboyle, 8, seriously injured, taken to hospital, after a head-on crash on Highway 169 near St. Peter.

Date: 
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Area: 
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
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.

Angel Estudillo-Delgado, 21, Juan Diaz-Pliego27, Celestino Hernandez-Gutierrez, 25, Narciso Hernandez, 41, injured, transported to hospital, after their car leaves the I-94 roadway, climbs up an embankment and overturns.

Date: 
Friday, March 14, 2014
Area: 
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN

Alcohol may have been a factor in a rollover crash that closed three lanes of westbound Interstate 94 in Minneapolis Saturday morning, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.

The crash happened near Cedar Ave. S. around 9 a.m. when a 2009 Dodge Neon, going westbound in the second to the left lane, lost control as the driver decided to exit at Cedar Ave., according to the state patrol. The car went up into the embankment and rolled, coming to a rest on its roof outside of the guardrail on the right side of the freeway.