ALBANY, Minn. — Reconstruction experts from the Minnesota State Patrol are on the scene of a fatal 3-vehicle crash on I-94 near Albany, trying to determine what happened.
The State Patrol website says the driver of a 2003 Grand Prix was traveling west on I-94 near Albany shortly after midnight when he crossed the median and struck a semi-truck head-on. A 17-year-old driver behind the wheel of an eastbound Chevy Trailblazer then struck the Grand Prix.
Investigators say the driver of the Pontiac, a 60-year-old man from Grove City, did not survive the crash. The teen driver suffered non-life threatening injuries, and and a Canadian couple inside the semi were uninjured.
The website does not say if troopers believe alcohol was involved in the crash.
Conditions at the time of the crash are described as wet, and a winter weather system moving through Minnesota has made things progressively worse on the roads. The beginning of the morning commute has seen crashes, spinouts, and cars leaving the road with surfaces coated with snow and an undercoating of ice.
I-94 westbound was closed in Woodbury for a time after a semi apparently tangled with a snowplow, and a crash at I-694 and Rice Street caused a shutdown that backed traffic up for miles. Drivers are reminded to slow down to match conditions, increase following distance and give snow plows plenty of room to operate.
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