Stearns County Sheriff s Office
(KNSI) – A 25-year-old woman and a child are OK after a rollover crash Sunday afternoon.
The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office says a deputy saw a vehicle in the ditch about 1:35 p.m. on County Road 8, north of Hubert Lane in Rockville Township. The deputy said the car appeared to have rolled over and landed on its wheels at the edge of a field.
The driver, Kimberly Ann Fennema of Cold Spring, and a juvenile passenger were both out of the car and appeared to have no injuries.
Fennema told the deputy she was driving south on County Road 8 and turned around to check on the child in the backseat and failed to negotiate the curve. She said the car entered the ditch sideways and rolled one time before landing on its wheels.
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1 Killed, 4 Injured in Separate Freeway Crashes in Stearns County
One person was killed, with four others injured in separate freeway crashes within miles of each other on I-94 in Stearns County Wednesday morning.
The State Patrol reports that shortly after 8 AM, a semi tractor-trailer was westbound on I-94 at Milepost 144 in Albany Township when it veered off the roadway to the left and crossed the median crashing into a straight truck and an SUV.
Killed in that crash was the driver of the semi, 59-year-old Brian Lemley of Sibley, North Dakota.
The driver of the straight truck, 26-year-old Eric Bueckers of New Munich, and the driver of the SUV, 44-year-old Tricia Shoutz of Sauk Centre, both had non-life threatening injuries that did not require hospital treatment.
Stearns County Sheriff s Office
(KNSI) – A Melrose man was hurt after a crash with a semi south of Freeport.
The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office was called around noon on Wednesday for a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of County Road 11 and County Road 30 in Oak Township.
Deputies say Dale Winter was driving a pickup truck north on County Road 11 when a Semi pulling trailer pulled out in front of him as he approached County Road 30.
Winter suffered injuries in the crash. His condition wasn’t released.
The semi, driven by 65-year-old Randy Walls of Minnetrista, was going east on County Road 30.