NEXT Drive: Wrong-way driver killed in fiery crash that closed I-94 in east metro
WOODBURY, Minn. -- The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating a deadly crash that shut down a stretch of Interstate 94 overnight between Woodbury and Lakeland.
The crash happened around 3:30 a.m. Saturday and left a fiery, smoky scene.
The state patrol said a driver in a Dodge Ram was going the wrong way in the eastbound lines and hit a FedEx Freightliner head-on. Both vehicles caught fire, and the driver of the Ram died after being trapped inside. The driver of the semi truck, a 69-year-old man from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was extricated and taken to a hospital. He is expected to survive.
The driver of the Ram has not yet been publicly identified.
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The stretch of highway has since reopened.