Driver killed in Stearns County crash

October 23, 2010 at 1:40AM

A 35-year-old woman from Kimball, Minn., was killed Thursday afternoon in rural Stearns County when the pickup truck she was driving ran off a county road, authorities said Friday.

Kristi Merten was southbound on County Road 8 in Maine Prairie Township when her 2006 GMC Sierra left the road near Evergreen Road and rolled over several times, according to the Sheriff's Office. She died at the scene.

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