A woman was killed Sunday evening when her car ran off a Hwy. 55 off-ramp at Fort Snelling and rolled down an embankment, the State Patrol said.
Jan'Qwes Lan'Tya Ronaye Tivis, 22, of Pipestone, Minn., lost control driving down the ramp from westbound Hwy. 55 to Bloomington Road "at a high rate of speed" about 6:30 p.m., the patrol said.
The driver was thrown from the car. Alcohol was not believed to be a factor in the crash, the patrol said.
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