Patrol IDs driver who died in single-vehicle crash where 2 busy interstates connect in New Brighton

The motorist was a 60-year-old man from Hudson, Wis.

December 1, 2023 at 8:29PM

A driver crashed his car into an interstate median in New Brighton and was killed, officials said Friday.

The wreck occurred about 9:40 p.m. Thursday where Interstate 694 intersects with Interstate 35W, the State Patrol said.

The motorist, 60-year-old David Wallace Szymanski of Hudson, Wis., hit a median while heading west on I-694 and ended up on the ramp from southbound I-35W to westbound I-694, the patrol said. Szymanski died at the scene.

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