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A pedestrian suffered a leg injury when a car that was picking up the pedestrian accidentally hit the pedestrian; the car then ran into the side of a church. The accident happened at about 7:30 p.m. at Church of the Savior, 971 16th St. S.E., according to the Rochester Fire Department Battalion Chief Steve Belau.
The pedestrian was taken to Saint Marys Hospital by a Gold Cross Ambulance. The driver of the car wasn’t injured. About $5,000 in damage was done to a church wall and windows.
Rochester firefighters are responding to a report of a car crashing into a building in the 900 block of 16th Street Southeast.
BYRON — A 21-year-old Rochester woman driving with her 1-year-old child missed a curve tonight and drove into the Zumbro River in Oxbow Park. The woman got out of the vehicle herself, but she needed the help of the Byron Fire Department to get her baby out. The was not in a submerged part of the vehicle. Neither the woman nor the child was injured.
An ambulance en route to an accident in north Rochester was struck by a car in downtown Rochester. Two people were injured and transported to the hospital.
The ambulance was westbound on Second Street and Third Avenue Southwest when it was struck by a car northbound on Third Avenue.
Police said the ambulance had its lights and siren activated when it entered the intersection, but the light was red. The car entered the intersection and struck the ambulance. Two other cars were then struck after the initial collision, police at the scene said.
Two people were extricated from two separate vehicles by firefighters and taken to the hospital.
The ambulance was headed to a car-school bus crash on north U.S. 63 about 5:40 p.m. Injuries were reported at that collision as well and a medical helicopter transported those people.
A car and a school bus from the city of Kellogg collided at U.S. 63 and 75th Street Northwest in Rochester. The crash was reported at 5:15 p.m.
Two people in the car were seriously injured; one was flown to Saint Marys Hospital by Mayo Clinic helicopter, and the other was transported there by ground ambulance . Eight children in the bus suffered minor injuries.
There was a report of a semi rollover accident east of Ellendale on Minnesota 30. Corn is reported covering the highway.
An accident with injuries was reported on the 19th Street Northwest bridge over U.S. 52.
An accident with injuries was reported on the frontage road of U.S. 52 North near the McDonald’s restaurant.
A Sauk Centre woman is in critical condition and her unborn child is dead after she swerved to avoid a deer on Interstate 94 near Albany. A spokeswoman for St. Cloud Hospital says 27-year-old Jennifer Huston was in critical condition this afternoon. Initial reports had called her injuries much less severe.
The State Patrol says she was driving on the interstate Wednesday evening when she swerved to avoid the animal. Her Mitsubishi Lancer rolled and the woman, who was eight months pregnant, was hurt. She was taken to the hospital, but doctors were unable to save her unborn child.
Two 29-year-old Rochester men were injured tonight when their SUV was broadsided and caught fire on Minnesota Highway 55 in Eagan. A Minnesota State Patrol report says that the driver, William R. Bell, and a passenger, Steve D. Johnson, were going north on Highway 55 when a full-size pickup driven by Ronald A. Tichy, 63, of Inver Grove Heights, ran a red light at the Lone Oak Road intersection and struck the SUV. The SUV left the roadway and started on fire.
