Wisconsin freeway again proves fatal to a Minnesotan

A third crash involving a Minnesota motorist on a stretch of central Wisconsin freeway has killed a woman from St. Louis Park.

A funeral is set for Wednesday for Kali Rose Mann, 22, whose pickup struck the rear of a semitrailer truck that had stopped Friday morning on the shoulder of northbound Interstate 39/90/94 near Arlington, Wis., north of Madison.

The semi driver had pulled over to help with a crash moments earlier at that location, according to the State Patrol.

Mann lost control of her pickup before hitting the semi, the patrol said. Speed is considered a factor in the crash, the patrol added.

Mann graduated in 2006 from St. Louis Park High School and from Omaha's Creighton University in 2009. She died at the scene, according to the patrol.

A passenger, Gordon Hicks, 23, also of St. Louis Park, was seriously injured and taken to the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison.

Semi driver Joseph E. Knapstein, 44, of Ogdensburg, Wis., was outside the vehicle and was uninjured, the patrol said.

Holly Stahl, 19, a graduate of Brookfield (Wis.) Central High School, died after a car driven by her boyfriend, Jack Moro, a St. Cloud State University student, collided with a semitrailer truck about 9 p.m. on Interstate 90/94 near New Lisbon, the patrol said. Moro, who attended high school with Stahl, was slightly hurt.

About an hour earlier, the Maple Grove family's minivan struck a semitrailer hanging over an overpass near Mauston. Driver Hardat Jeet, 40, and a passenger, Elijah Jeet, 9, suffered serious injuries. The semi driver was unhurt.