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Duluth, MN-Superior, WI
Accident Date:
Fri, 01/30/2015Nordeen was driving a pickup truck north on Highway 7 at about 5:50pm when he crossed into oncoming traffic and collided head on with a southbound car containing two people, before a third vehicle finally struck the rear of Nordeen's pickup truck.
Duluth, MN-Superior, WI
Accident Date:
Sun, 01/25/2015This accident happened at approximately 9:30 p.m. at the intersection of highways 18 and 65, south of McGrath in Aitkin County. Anthony R. Sundholm, 47, of McGrath was killed. Hospitalized with noncritical injuries were driver Peter P. Sarkisyan, 29, of Forest Lake, and Seth A.
Duluth, MN-Superior, WI
Accident Date:
Thu, 01/22/2015Sometime in the morning, Waller was driving on Highway 2 with passenger Mae Line when he apparently suffered a medical emergency, speculated to be a heart attack, and crashed his vehicle into some trees.
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
Accident Date:
Wed, 01/21/2015At around 8 p.m. in southeastern Beltrami County, a pickup truck with an attached snowplow was driving north, while a 32-year-old man was walking south on the west side of the road with two other people.
Mankato, MN
Accident Date:
Wed, 01/21/2015Joan L. Eischen of Comfrey, Minnesota was killed when her northbound car slid on ice on County Road 16 and was struck by a southbound semi. The truck driver, Michael J. Lux, 60, of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota was not injured in the collision. The accident happened at around 8:50 a.m.
Duluth, MN-Superior, WI
Accident Date:
Fri, 01/09/2015According to the Duluth Police Department, at 10:15 Friday morning a Jeep Cherokee was traveling west on Grand Avenue when its driver lost control, crossed into oncoming traffic, and was struck by a Nissan Rogue. Then, a third vehicle struck the Jeep on the 8500 block of Grand Avenue.
Rochester, MN-Mason City, IA-Austin, MN
Accident Date:
Fri, 01/09/2015It was about 7:00pm when Erding was driving home on an icy stretch of County Road 5 and lost control at a curve, which sent her car up and over an embankment and into the ice-filled Root River below.
Fargo-Valley City, ND
Accident Date:
Wed, 12/31/2014At around 5:30pm, a car driven by Cook that Reed was riding in slowed at a stop sign on Highway 11, but still continued onto the railroad tracks despite an approaching train and was struck by it on the driver's side, killing both people in the car. The train engineer was not injured in the crash.
Fargo-Valley City, ND
Accident Date:
Wed, 12/31/2014Two people died after their vehicle was struck by a train in northern Minnesota around 5:33 p.m. Wednesday on Highway 11 in Roseau. A Ford Focus was northbound at a railroad crossing when the driver slowed at a stop sign but didn’t stop the vehicle.
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
Accident Date:
Sun, 12/28/2014Suncica and Sejfudin Sejdninovic were riding in a Jeep on U.S. Highway 63 when the vehicle hit a patch of ice and Suncica, who was, driving, lost control. Both people sustained non-life threatening injuries and were taken to a hospital in Rochester.
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
Accident Date:
Fri, 12/26/2014Cheron Swanson, 68, of Dayton, was driving east on County Road 81 Friday around 4 pm when she was struck head-on by a car driven by Michael Kelley, 54, who was traveling westbound in the eastbound lane. Kelley, of Dayton, was also killed in the crash.
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
Accident Date:
Mon, 12/22/2014There are almost no details on the crash itself, but it has been confirmed that Johnson was killed and Kroll was injured as the result of a two vehicle crash. We will update this accident as more information is released.
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
Accident Date:
Sun, 12/21/2014Kassandra Keske was driving southbund on U.S. 169 when she lost control of her car on an icy stretch of road and collided with both an SUV and a pickup going the other way on the road. Keske died at the scene, and the driver of the SUV was hospitalized.
Duluth, MN-Superior, WI
Accident Date:
Thu, 12/18/2014Sometime in the morning, a Jeep ended up striking a semi-truck as the truck was turning left, injuring both drivers. Both Keil, who was in the Jeep, and Shoen, who was in the semi-truck, were hospitalized, though their injuries were non-life threatening.
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
Accident Date:
Sun, 12/14/2014The multi-part crash began at about 6:03pm when a pickup truck driven by Kingbird, 51, with Hawk, 47, as a passenger veered over the center line into oncoming traffic and struck a car driven by Lindstrom, 23.