Police: 'We do not believe ... speed was a factor' in construction zone crash

Investigators say they do not think a driver was speeding when he lost control, crashed into a construction zone and killed two workers on 35W in Burnsville.

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BMTN Staff
Updated:
Mar 8, 2018
Original:
Oct 14, 2011

Investigators tell Fox 9 they do not think a driver was speeding when he lost control, crashed into a construction zone and killed two workers on 35W in Burnsville.

MPR takes a detailed look at the State Patrol's report. The driver reportedly slowed as he approached the work zone, but felt he was too close to the construction wall. He braked hard and turned too sharply before losing control of the vehicle.

One of the workers died at the scene. Another was severely hurt and died at Hennepin County Medical Center. The two men were doing electrical work for a new MnPass lane at the time of the crash.

"He was a very good husband and very good father," the wife of one of the men told Kare 11.

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The State Patrol says the 21-year-old driver lost control of his vehicle and spun into a ditch, where he hit and killed two construction workers. The speed limit in the area was 70 miles per hour despite being a construction zone. Investigators say they're unsure whether the driver was speeding.

Authorities say the 21-year-old driver ran off the road and crashed into a construction zone. Authorities found one of the workers dead at the scene. The other died a short time later at Hennepin County Medical Center.

Authorities say the driver lost control of his vehicle on the ramp from southbound 280 to I-94 in St. Paul early this morning. The driver of the vehicle then fled the scene on foot, leaving the car behind.

A Central Corridor light rail construction worker lost his hand and foot after heavy machinery rolled over on him Tuesday. The worker for contractor Ames Construction was working on an overpass near I-35W when the mobile lift he was in toppled over.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is again pleading with drivers to take care when traveling through an Interstate 94 construction zone where a woman was critically injured in a crash this week. It followed two other rear-end crashes in the work zone in April.

An investigator told KFGO radio, the 18-year-old driver was traveling 78 miles-per-hour when she lost control and collided with an oncoming SUV near Alexandria in February. The State Patrol says winter weather was also a factor in the fatal crash that killed the four young women from the Twin Cities area.

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The crash happened in a closed-off construction zone, according to the State Patrol.

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Speed appears to be a factor in the crash, according to the Cass County Sheriff's Office.

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