MINNEAPOLIS — Officials have reopened Highway 62 in south Minneapolis nearly eight hours after a deadly crash early Monday near the MSP International Airport.
According to the Minnesota State Patrol, the crash occurred just after 3:15 a.m. Monday on Highway 62 near 34the Avenue South. MnDOT traffic cams showed both sides of the Crosstown back open around 11 a.m.
Multiple vehicles were involved in the crash, including a Minnesota State Patrol cruiser. The state patrol website says the driver of an eastbound pickup pulling a trailer went into the ditch and then collided with a pillar under the 34th Ave. bridge.
Two people had to be extricated from the wreckage. The state patrol website indicates a 21-year-old man who was a passenger in the pickup did not survive. He was identified Tuesday as Preston Haley.
The driver, a 34-year-old man from Texas, was being treated at Hennepin County Medical Center for life-threatening injuries and remained in critical condition as of Tueday night.
Later Monday morning the Minneapolis Fire Department sent out a release indicating that one of the department's ladder trucks was responding to the crash and attempting to turn around in a median cutout for emergencies on Highway 62 when it collided with a state trooper squad car that was also responding to the incident.
Assistant Chief Melanie Rucker says the fire truck had to be towed, but no firefighters were injured.
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