Over 100 migratory shephards rescued from snowstorm-hit high pastures
He advised people not to travel on these routes until the highway was cleared and restored for traffic movement.
A least four people died in accidents on roads left slippery by the first significant snowstorm of the season to strike Minnesota.
Plymouth police say a pedestrian helping a driver who spun out was hit by another vehicle that spun out around 12:15 a.m. Saturday on Highway 169.
The pedestrian died at the scene. That person’s name hasn’t been released.
The State Patrol says a 58-year-old St Paul man died around 9:30 p.m. Friday when his pickup spun out on Highway 169 and rolled in Princeton. His name hasn’t been released.
Advertisement
Two others died in storm-related crashes Friday morning.
They were a 44-year-old Duluth trucker who went off Interstate 35 into the St Louis River in Scanlon, and a 26-year-old Pierz man who died in a crash on Highway 25 near Brainerd.
Advertisement
