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11 die on Minn. roads over weekend
9 die on Iowa roads
Published Tuesday, May 26, 2009
MINNEAPOLIS — A 2-year-old boy and two other people remain hospitalized with critical injuries after Memorial Day weekend accidents that killed 11 people in Minnesota.
Forty-three-year-old Rita M. Seha and 2-year-old Carter Newell were critically injured Saturday when the van they were in was struck in Olmsted County. Four people in the van died.
St. Marys Hospital in Rochester says Seha remained critical Monday, but would not give out any information about Carter. Both patients are from Rochester.
In Robbinsdale, 51-year-old John Hubers of Oak Grove remained in critical condition at North Memorial Medical Center. He was hurt in a head-on collision in Cass County on Saturday evening that killed his wife.
9 die on Iowa roads
At least nine people have died in accidents on Iowa roadways over the weekend.
An Oelwein woman died Saturday after her car collided head-on with a semitrailer in Bremer County, and a Fairbanks couple was killed when their motorcycle was struck head-on by a car Saturday morning near Kendallville, in Winneshiek County.
A Boone woman died Friday night in a rollover accident on U.S. Highway 30 in Boone County, and a Storm Lake woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash north of Kiron on Sunday.
Two Indianola residents were killed in three-vehicle near Washington in a crash that left five others injured.
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Posted by Wildbill (anonymous) on May 26, 2009 at 2:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I notice there's no mention of seatbelt use.
Posted by wingo (anonymous) on May 26, 2009 at 2:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)
May God watch over Rita and Carter and bless Heidi and the others who died. There were coming home from a picnic, what a tragedy this is.
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