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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Six people, including three children, were seriously hurt after a major accident involving at least two vehicles in St. Paul on Wednesday, St. Paul Police say. The crash was reported near Maryland Avenue East and Johnson Parkway around 8:45 p.m. St. Paul police say 23-year-old Jim Xion was driving with one passenger. According to police, Xion collided with 44-year-old Tou Lee, who had his three children in the car. Lee and his 10-year-old son were ejected. All victims were taken to Regions Hospital and were in serious condition when they arrived Wednesday, police said.
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Monday, March 10, 2014
A motorcyclist struck a pothole along a winter-worn stretch of a Minneapolis interstate and was thrown to his death, authorities said Wednesday. Anand Baskaran, 30, of the Long Island community of East Northport, N.Y., hit the pothole along eastbound Interstate 394 near Theodore Wirth Parkway about 9:50 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the State Patrol. Baskaran was wearing a helmet.
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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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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
An 80-year-old man from St. Paul died in a rollover crash the night of Thanksgiving in Dakota County. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, David Jones was eastbound in the right lane of Highway 110 near Highway 149 when he went off the road and rolled. The one-vehicle crash happened around 8:30 p.m. Jones was ejected from his vehicle and died from his injuries, the state patrol reported.
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Monday, November 18, 2013
A brother driving himself and three siblings in his Milaca family to school north of the Twin Cities pulled his minivan into the path of a semitrailer truck less than a mile from their destination, leaving his 13-year-old sister dead in a broadside collision, authorities said. The crash occurred about 7:55 a.m. Tuesday at the T-intersection of Hwy. 23 and 127th Avenue, just west of Milaca, according to the State Patrol. Killed was Katrina E. Maetzold, 13, the patrol said. No one in the van was wearing seat belts, the patrol added.