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The Rogers Police Department has identified the woman who crashed into a lake in Rogers on Monday afternoon as Karen Torgerson.
According to Rogers police, Torgerson was driving on Interstate 94 eastbound near a waste management company, VEIT USA, at 4:10 p.m. when she crashed into the lake.
Cody Shirley was in the area when he saw the car crash. Police say he went into the lake to help rescue Torgerson.
Torgerson was taken to the hospital, but was expected to be OK.
A 50-year-old man was one of two people who were killed in a head-on crash near Orono on Friday morning.
Steven Francis Crowley of Delano died as a result of multiple blunt force injuries he sustained during the crash, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner.
Orono officers were called at 7:01 a.m. on a report of a collision on Highway 12 just west of County Road 6. When they arrived, they found two vehicles with severe damage.
A 20-year-old woman was hit and killed by a vehicle in Columbia Heights overnight.
Police say the woman was hit on the 4400 block of University Avenue Northeast near 44th Avenue Northeast around 1:55 a.m. Thursday. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the vehicle that hit the victim is a 32-year-old Fridley woman, who wasn't injured. No foul play is suspected, and police say the driver stopped.
It’s unclear what led to the crash, but police are investigating. No other details have been released.
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.
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.
Three Winona teenagers were injured in a broadside crash Thursday night on U.S. Highway 14, including a 17-year-old female who was taken to La Crosse for treatment of serious injuries.
The crash occurred just after 6 p.m. Thursday at the intersection of U.S. 14 and Orrin Street near Hy-Vee on the western edge of Winona. Aaron Walters, 26, of California, was driving southbound on U.S. 14 when his vehicle collided with a vehicle driven by 17-year-old Carissa Drackley, of Winona.