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Thursday, October 23, 2014
One person was taken to Unity Hospital with minor injuries following a collision between a van and a semi truck, causing the van, and eventually the semi truck, to catch fire. The accident occured just after midnight on Thursday, October 23 when the driver of the van ran a red light at the intersection of 73th Avenue Northwest and University Avenue Northeast. The driver of the semi was not hurt.     
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

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.

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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.

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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Despite being very familiar with an Anoka County lake, a man crashed his pickup truck through the ice Sunday morning.

Authorities say Jim Flink of Elk River was driving a Chevy Silverado while pulling a snowmobile trailer on Peltier Lake in Lino Lakes when it broke through the ice.

Before the incident, Flink says he stopped and talked to a group of people on the lake who said it had about 14-18 inches of ice. He decided to drive on the lake to go snowmobiling. Flink says the front end of his truck went through ice that was about an inch thick.