Five people, including a teenage boy, were killed in four traffic accidents statewide over the Labor Day weekend, the State Patrol reported.
On Monday evening, a two-vehicle collision on a central Minnesota interstate left two men dead, officials said Tuesday. They were identified as Said A. Mohamed, 36, of Pelican Rapids, and Abdalla Mohamed Gudad, 69, of Grand Island, Neb.
The crash occurred shortly before 7 p.m. about 2 miles east of Freeport, in Stearns County, on Interstate 94, the State Patrol said, after a Honda Accord and a Chevrolet pickup truck were heading west on I-94 and collided, the patrol said.
Mohamed was driving the Accord, while Gudad was a passenger. Both were wearing seatbelts. Another passenger with them sustained life-threatening injuries and is in the hospital, according to the patrol. The pickup driver, a 23-year-old man from Albany, Minn., was not seriously hurt.
A 17-year-old male from New Germany was killed Monday morning when the van he was driving rolled over west of Chaska in Carver County, authorities said.
Daniel Junior Soriano was partly ejected after losing control of the 2006 Chevrolet Express van, sending it into the center median while traveling west on Hwy. 212 at Mellgren Lane in Dahlgren Township.
The accident was reported shortly after 6:30 a.m. Soriano was not wearing a seat belt and the airbag was not deployed, authorities said. Alcohol was not involved.
On Sunday evening, a Bigfork, Minn., driver was killed when his car was struck by a pickup truck after entering Hwy. 169 in Taconite, Minn., northeast of Grand Rapids, the State Patrol said.
