Officials ID driver who was injured in crash south of Uptown last month and died 6 days later

The SUV veered off the street and struck a large tree, according to a police report.

November 15, 2022 at 12:47PM

Officials have identified the driver who was injured in a crash last month south of Uptown and died six days later.

Hubert Temba, 65, of Minneapolis, suffered multiple injuries in the wreck shortly before 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 19 at the intersection of S. Emerson Avenue and W. 34th Street, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office said Monday.

Temba, who lived about a block from where the crash occurred, was taken by emergency responders to HCMC and died there on Oct. 25, the examiner's office said.

Temba's SUV veered off the street and struck a large tree, according to a police incident report. The impact left the vehicle with severe front-end damage, the report noted.

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