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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.

Date: 
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.

Date: 
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.