State Patrol says she rear-ended tractor trailer
A 39-year-old driver from Hastings died Monday morning in a highway crash with a semi in South St. Paul.
The woman was driving a Chevrolet Malibu when she rear-ended a tractor trailer “at a high rate of speed,” according to the Minnesota State Patrol. It happened at 4:27 a.m. on eastbound Interstate 494 near Fifth Avenue.
The State Patrol plans to release the woman’s name on Tuesday.
The driver of the semi, a 39-year-old man from Holmen, Wis., was not hurt, the State Patrol said.