A semitrailer truck hauling potatoes veered into a ditch Saturday morning on Interstate 494 in Eden Prairie, rolling over and killing the driver.
Little Falls man dies in semi rollover in Eden Prairie
The truck drifted off the freeway and into a ditch.
November 6, 2021 at 9:59PM
The accident happened just after 7 a.m., on southbound 494 near Valley View Road.
The driver, Mark Edward Batters, 58, of Little Falls, Minn., died when his 2013 Peterbilt truck drifted off the freeway into a ditch and rolled over on its roof, according to a State Patrol report.
The State Patrol was investigating.
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