State Patrol: Wrong-Way Driver Causes Fatal Crash On Highway 169
ST. LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP, Minn. (WCCO) -- Authorities say a driver going the wrong way caused a fatal crash on Highway 169 when he struck another vehicle head-on.
According to the Minnesota State Patrol, a 34-year-old man from Chaska was driving north in the southbound lanes of highway near St. Lawrence Township around 3:20 a.m. Sunday. He crashed into another vehicle heading south.
Two 20-year-old women in the other vehicle were hospitalized with injuries that were not life-threatening. Nineteen-year-old Arianna Vos was killed in the crash, state patrol said.
The man driving the wrong way was not injured, but was hospitalized, according to the state patrol.