At least one person died Saturday afternoon in a crash on Interstate 94 in St. Paul, bringing the day's death toll on Minnesota roads to at least three, according to the State Patrol.
The 31-year-old Minneapolis man killed in the crash was not wearing a seat belt and the car's air bag deployed, the State Patrol said late Saturday. The name of the man, killed in the eastbound lanes of the freeway near Prior Avenue at 2:36 p.m., is to be released Monday.
The car, a 2017 Hyundai Elantra, left the road and rolled in the right shoulder of I-90, the patrol said.
Earlier Saturday, two people died in separate one-vehicle crashes on icy roads in southern Minnesota.
An Iowa man was killed when a pickup in which he was a passenger lost control on westbound Interstate 94 in Jay Township, in Martin County, went into the median and rolled over. Charles E. Bilek, 61, of Clinton, Iowa, was killed. He was wearing a seatbelt, the patrol said.
Bilek was in a vehicle driven by Cynthia Ann Pleau, 60, of Siren, Wis., who suffered noncritical injuries, as did two teenage passengers.
That crash happened at 10:12 a.m. Twenty minutes earlier, a Rochester woman died when she lost control of her vehicle on an icy highway in Dodge County.
The 42-year-old woman, whose name has not been released, was driving a pickup west on Hwy. 14, just east of Dodge Center, when the vehicle went out of control on the icy road and then rolled over, according to the State Patrol.
