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25-year-old woman dead after crash involving semi, vehicle carrying 3 children in southern Minnesota

WCCO digital update: Morning of June 4, 2024
WCCO digital update: Morning of June 4, 2024 04:07

VAIL TOWNSHIP, Minn. — At least one person is dead after a crash in southern Minnesota that involved three children under 4 and a semi truck.

A 25-year-old woman was killed in the crash. It happened It happened on Highway 68 at County Road 6 in Redwood County just after 12:30 p.m. Monday.

The patrol said a semi truck and a pickup truck collided in the intersection. The woman, from Wheaton, was driving the pickup, and three children ages 4, 2 and 1 were her passengers. The children suffered non-life threatening injuries.

A 63-year-old man from Redwood Falls was driving the semi.

Another southern Minnesota crash left two young children hospitalized over the weekend. The single-vehicle crash in Webster Township on Saturday killed 30-year-old Nathan Thomas of Dundas, according to the Rice County Sheriff's Office. The 33-year-old woman who was driving was critically injured and taken to Hennepin Healthcare. Two boys, one 2 months old and the other just under 2 years old, were taken to the same hospital for "urgent medical care," the sheriff's office said.

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