Two women are dead after the car they were riding in crashed in Faribault County Thursday, the State Patrol said.
Crashes kill 2 in Faribault County, 1 in Brainerd
Two women are dead after the car they were riding in crashed in Faribault County Thursday, the State Patrol said.
August 6, 2016 at 2:12AM
They were southbound on 400th Avenue at 20th Street near Elmore, Minn., when their 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier left the road about 7:45 p.m. and landed in a ditch.
The driver, a 33-year-old from Elmore, was taken to a hospital in Blue Earth where she died. A 32-year-old passenger from Inver Grove Heights was taken to St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, where she died, the patrol said.
Names of the victims have not been released.
In a separate crash, a 57-year-old Brainerd man identified as Ray Demars was killed in a head-on crash on Hwy. 371 Thursday evening. A driver heading south near Greenwood Street in Brainerd crossed over the centerline and collided with Demars' vehicle at 6:30 p.m., the patrol said.
Demars was dead at the scene. The other driver, Gerrey Stevenson, 40, of Little Falls, was taken to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale with a serious injury, the patrol said.
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