A Minnesota driver who was injured by a part that fell off a passing semitrailer truck one afternoon last spring has died, officials said.
The incident occurred about 1 p.m. on April 25 on Hwy. 63 near Racine in southern Minnesota, the State Patrol said.
Cassandra Danielle Faulhaber, 36, of Le Roy, was heading south, when an unspecified object from a northbound semi came off and went through the SUV’s windshield and struck Faulhaber, the patrol said.
“A piece broke off the semi-truck,” Patrol Lt. Mike Lee said Friday. “This was not a load securement issue.”
On Wednesday, the patrol announced that Faulhaber had died. Her online obituary said she died Monday while hospitalized in Rochester.
Her husband, 35-year-old Jerrod Ryan Faulhaber, was also in the SUV and not hurt, the patrol said.
The patrol said it found the semi and trucker, 53-year-old Christopher Paul Johnson, of North Branch, Minn.
Patrol Sgt. Troy Christianson said Thursday that the case “will be sent to the [Mower] County attorney for review for possible charges.”
