10 killed in weekend crashes on Minnesota roads

At least nine people were killed on Minnesota roads in collisions over the weekend.

At 2:30 a.m. Sunday, one person died and several were injured in a two-vehicle crash in Otter Tail County, the State Patrol said.

Each car was carrying four people when they collided on Hwy. 210 at County Road 33. No other details were available Sunday.

It was the latest of several deadly crashes in Minnesota over the weekend that came amid a much broader decline in traffic fatalities in the past year, said Lt. Eric Roeske of the Minnesota State Patrol.

The other fatalities:

Three vehicles collided in Goodhue County, killing two people from Chicago and injuring a third person. Angela Dimopoulas, 70, and Connie Dimopoulas, 65, were killed at 7:30 p.m. as Angela drove west on County Road 9 in Goodhue County and attempted to cross Hwy. 52. Two drivers who had been drinking hit the Dimopoulas car. A 53-year-old Rochester man with a history of speeding tickets first hit it broadside; then a 32-year-old man from Rochester hit it. The two surviving drivers were treated for noncritical injuries at St. Marys Hospital in Rochester.

Also Saturday, a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of County Roads 40 and 5 west of New London killed two people and injured two, the Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Office said. More details will be released Monday, the Sheriff's Office said.

A 37-year-old man died as well on Saturday when his pickup truck went off the road on Hwy. 169 on Minnesota's Iron Range. The pickup was southbound on the wet highway about 3 miles south of Keewatin shortly after 2:30 a.m. when it went into a ditch. Driver Jeremy Topper of Cohasset was ejected and died at the scene. A passenger, Jared Tenny, 34, was treated for injuries at University Medical Center-Mesabi in Hibbing.

At least two more died on state highways Friday.

Abigail Wendland, 16, of Waseca, was driving west on 22nd Avenue at 4 p.m. when she entered an intersection and was hit by a northbound semi-trailer truck. The 32-year-old truck driver was not hurt.

Samuel Grossman, 55, of Cohasset, died when his truck, traveling east on Hwy. 169 at Calumet, drifted across the center line and struck a semi-trailer truck parked on the westbound shoulder.