MnDOT worker seriously injured when struck on I-94 in north Minneapolis

November 4, 2013 at 6:46AM

A Minnesota Department of Transportation employee was struck by a car while cleaning debris on Interstate 94 at 42nd Avenue N. in Minneapolis on Sunday night, the State Patrol said.

The MnDOT worker, who was not identified, was taken to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale with serious injuries, the patrol said.

The car's driver was arrested for driving without a license or insurance, giving false information to police, careless driving and for having an open bottle in his vehicle.

The accident occurred about 7:35 p.m., the patrol's website states.

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Anthony Lonetree has been covering St. Paul Public Schools and general K-12 issues for the Star Tribune since 2012-13. He began work in the paper's St. Paul bureau in 1987 and was the City Hall reporter for five years before moving to various education, public safety and suburban beats.

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