A driver speeding north on Interstate 35 in Lakeville lost control of his vehicle, veered across a grassy boulevard and through a freeway fence and crashed head-on into a State Patrol squad, the patrol said.
Trooper hurt when car slams into his SUV head-on near Lakeville
Driver lost control of car on I-35, hit trooper's SUV.
![A scene of the crash on Kendrick Avenue at 205th Street, parallel to Interstate 35.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/AO4RTMDXWYI4WFBTB7T7ICPQ4M.jpg?&w=712)
The driver was seriously injured and flown by helicopter to a Twin Cities hospital; the trooper was also hospitalized, with noncritical injuries.
The patrol said the trooper, Sgt. Mike Krukowski, 35, of Oakdale, was driving south on Kendrick Avenue near 205th Street about 4:30 p.m. when Wesley Paul Briggs, 29, of Lakeville, crashed into the patrol's sport-utility vehicle. Krukowski was wearing a seat belt; it was not clear whether Briggs was belted in. Kendrick Avenue runs parallel to I-35.
Briggs was taken to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale; his condition was not known. Krukowski was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.
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