A semitrailer truck hauling potatoes veered into a ditch Saturday morning on Interstate 494 in Eden Prairie, rolling over and killing the driver.
The accident happened just after 7 a.m., on southbound 494 near Valley View Road.
The driver, Mark Edward Batters, 58, of Little Falls, Minn., died when his 2013 Peterbilt truck drifted off the freeway into a ditch and rolled over on its roof, according to a State Patrol report.
The State Patrol was investigating.
Libor Jany • 612-673-4064
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