2 killed in Coon Rapids crash between motorcycle, car
COON RAPIDS, Minn. -- Authorities say a motorcyclist and a motorist are dead after a crash in Coon Rapids Tuesday night.
The Anoka County Sheriff's Office said the crash occurred just before 8:45 p.m. near Hanson Boulevard and 129th Lane.
A man on a motorcycle was speeding south on Hanson Boulevard and hit a car turning from 129th Lane, the sheriff's office said.
The motorcyclist -- identified as 37-year-old Joseph Heim of Ham Lake -- died at the scene. Forty-year-old Nicholas Wivinus of Coon Rapids, the motorist, was hospitalized in critical condition and later died, the sheriff's office said.
The crash is being investigated.
