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Monday, January 6, 2014Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNEmergency 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.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNThirteen people were injured, six critically, early Wednesday morning after an explosion caused a major fire at a grocery store and apartment building in the bustling Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in south Minneapolis.
At a morning news conference the Minneapolis Fire Chief said they do not know yet if all the residents are accounted for. Some made it out on their own into the subzero temperatures, but others had to be rescued with ladders.
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Thursday, December 19, 2013Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNA 55-year-old pedestrian was hit by a car on the border of Minneapolis and Brooklyn Center Friday night and died shortly after at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, police said Saturday.
The driver, an 18-year-old woman, was heading northwest on Osseo Road and hit the woman, who was crossing N. 49th Avenue, said a Minneapolis police spokeswoman.
The victim was wearing a dark-red coat, and the driver, who was believed to be driving at or near the posted speed limit, never saw the victim in the darkness police said.
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Sunday, December 15, 2013Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNEmergency crews worked through the night to clear eastbound I-94 near the Hudson Bridge after multiple vehicle crashes that left some injured and other motorists caught in traffic for hours.
At about 9 p.m. Monday, a vehicle spun out, causing a semitrailer truck to jackknife, hit a guardrail and tip over, authorities on the scene said. Two other vehicles then hit the semi, which was badly damaged.
Some people were taken to an area hospital for injuries, but authorities reached at midnight said they didn’t know how many or the extent of their injuries.
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Thursday, December 5, 2013Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNOne person died Friday after a car went over a guardrail on the Bloomington Ferry Bridge and landed on its roof, according to police.
The driver apparently lost control of the vehicle, a 2003 Buick LeSabre, on the icy blacktop of highway 169 near mile post 117 and ran off the road, police said.
The LeSabre was the only car involved.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNA city spokesman says five children rescued from a car that veered off a highway ramp in suburban Minneapolis and landed in a holding pond were unresponsive when they were pulled from the water.
City spokesman Jamie Zwilling was on the scene of the accident Thursday morning in St. Louis Park at Highways 7 and 100. Zwilling says the mother of the children made it out of the car when it landed in the water but that the children were in the submerged car for about 20 minutes.