Woman, 88, dies from crash in Milaca

Star Tribune

Last update: June 11, 2008 - 9:24 AM

An 88-year-old Wright County woman involved in a traffic crash last month has died, authorities said today.

Ida Marie Violet, of Buffalo, died Sunday at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale from injuries suffered in the two-car crash, the Hennepin County medical examiner's office said.

The collision occurred late in the morning on May 4 at Hwy. 23 and 10th Av. in Milaca, Minn., the examiner's office said.

The car Violet was riding in on northbound 10th Avenue entered the intersection after observing a stop sign and was struck by a car with the right of way heading east on Hwy. 23, the State Patrol said.

No one else in either vehicle was seriously hurt, the patrol said.

The driver of the northbound car, Emma Burrows, 84, of Brainerd, told authorities that she didn't see the other car before the collision.

PAUL WALSH

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