An 80-year-old woman who suffered serious injuries in a two-vehicle crash in north Minneapolis has died more than two weeks later, officials said Monday.
Bennett Ruth Whitfield, of Minneapolis, died on May 8 while residing at the Good Samaritan Society care facility in Robbinsdale, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office said.
Whitfield suffered numerous injuries in the crash while driving near N. Dupont and Lowry avenues shortly after 1 p.m. on April 22, the examiner's office said.
According to police and fire reports:
A car driven by a 39-year-old Twin Cities woman struck Whitfield's minivan on the driver's side and then hit the porch of a house, the Fire Department report disclosed.
Fire personnel located Whitfield in her minivan showing "signs of trauma and possible fractures to lower limbs," the Fire Department report read. They broke into the minivan and removed Whitfield before an ambulance took her to North Memorial Health Hospital, the report continued.
