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Friday, January 24, 2014
A 45-year-old St. Paul man is dead after a crash on the Lafayette Bridge Saturday morning. The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating the head-on crash that happened in the northbound lanes. There was limited information released about the accident. The State Patrol said it involved one vehicle, a 1999 GMC Yukon. Authorities are working on notifying relatives before they release the man's name.
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Thursday, January 23, 2014

A two-vehicle crash Friday morning on the southeastern edge of Otsego has left one person dead.

A car spun out Friday morning on a snowy highway in Otsego, sending the driver into a deadly collision with an SUV heading the other way, authorities said.

The collision occurred shortly after 7:20 a.m. on Hwy. 37, about a half-mile west of Hwy. 101, according to the Wright County Sheriff’s Office.

Killed was a 55-year-old woman from Otsego, the Sheriff’s Office said, adding that she was wearing a seat belt. Her identity has yet to be released.

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Thursday, January 23, 2014

One person is dead after a single vehicle accident in White Bear Lake overnight.

Just after midnight on Friday, police say a car rolled into the center median of northbound Highway 61 at Buffalo Street.

White Bear Lake Police and the Minnesota State Patrol responded and say the driver was dead at the scene.

The victim was later identified as Steven Buche 53, and cause of accident have not been released.

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Saturday, January 18, 2014
A 22-year-old Maple Grove man died Saturday in a snowmobile crash in north-central Minnesota, authorities said. According to a statement from the Todd County Sheriff’s Office released Sunday: Authorities received a report of a missing man at 11:23 a.m. Saturday. Friends of Jared Wallenfelsz said they had last seen him driving a snowmobile away from his family’s cabin on Long Lake about 1:30 a.m. that morning.
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Friday, January 17, 2014
Four people were hurt after a head-on crash involving an ambulance in Buffalo Township Saturday morning. The collision happened on County Highway 35 Northeast and Eaken Avenue Northeast around 1:30 a.m. The Wright County Sheriff's Office says an Allina Ambulance, which was west on County Road 35, had one patient and two EMTs inside when it collided with an eastbound SUV. The SUV had one person inside. Everyone was taken to various hospitals. Names have not been released. The crash remains under investigation.
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Friday, January 10, 2014
A 51-year-old man from Buffalo, Minn., was killed in a snowmobile crash over the weekend. According to the Wright County Sheriff’s Office, Craig Peitz was on a trail parallel to Endicott Avenue Northwest in Silver Creek Township around 3 p.m. Saturday. Officials say Peitz was going southbound on the trail when he came over a hill, hit a snow crest and was thrown from the snowmobile. Peitz was airlifted to North Memorial Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. The incident is still under investigation by the Wright County Sheriff’s Office.
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Friday, January 10, 2014
A Minnesota man is dead after a crash on Saturday night northwest of the metro. The Morrison County Sheriff's Office says 25-year-old Levi Hillyer of Pierz was driving northbound on Park Avenue when his vehicle approached a bridge, left the roadway and hit a river bank around 7:45 p.m. in Pierz. He was pronounced dead at the scene. There no information on the cause of the crash.
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Monday, January 6, 2014
Emergency crews were responding after a car went off an overpass in Little Canada. The crash was on Interstate 694 westbound at Interstate 35E southbound and happened around 7:24 a.m. Tuesday. According to officials at the scene, the vehicle went off the overpass and landed on a frozen pond. The Minnesota State Patrol says the woman who was driving has non-life threatening injuries. The right shoulder was blocked during the incident.