A two-vehicle crash Monday morning near St. Michael's Interstate 94 exit has left a 70-year-old man dead, according to authorities.
The collision occurred shortly before 6:30 a.m. on Hwy. 241 near O'Day Avenue and leading to a gas station, the State Patrol said.
Killed in the wreck was car passenger David F. Larson, of Monticello.
According to the patrol:
The car was turning left from southbound Hwy. 241 onto O'Day and was hit broadside by a pickup truck heading north.
The car's driver, Vincent Villavicencio, 54, of Monticello, was taken to North Memorial Medical Center with noncritical injuries. The pickup driver, 54-year-old Bruce G. Plante, of Buffalo, Minn., escaped injury.
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