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Police investigating fatal overnight crash in Minneapolis

Police said that alcohol, drug impairment, excessive speed and not obeying traffic control devices are factors in the crash.
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Police say a man in his 50s was killed in a crash near 26th and Cedar that appears to involve drugs or alcohol and excessive speed.

MINNEAPOLIS — Police are investigating an overnight crash in Minneapolis that left one man dead.

At around 3:42 a.m., police received a report of a crash on the intersection of 26th Street East and Cedar Avenue South.

A preliminary investigation suggests a vehicle with three people traveling westbound struck a vehicle traveling southbound.

The three in the westbound vehicle suffered non-life threatening injuries. 

The lone occupant of the southbound vehicle, a man in his 50s, died at the scene of the accident. 

Police said that alcohol, drug impairment, excessive speed and not obeying traffic control devices are factors in the crash.

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