A 53-year-old woman from Winthrop, Minn., has died as the result of injuries she suffered in a three-vehicle crash Monday on an icy road in Sibley County.
Lori Smith died Thursday at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, the medical examiner's office said Saturday.
Smith was driving west on Hwy. 19 just after noon Monday when her car skidded on ice behind a truck that had slowed to turn onto Sibley County Road 4. Smith's vehicle spun into the eastbound lane, where it was hit by an oncoming semitrailer truck. While trying to avoid Smith's vehicle, the semi sideswiped the smaller truck that had slowed to turn.
The semitrailer truck's driver, Leroy Lang, 65, of Winthrop, suffered minor injuries. The driver of the smaller truck, Leonard Hardel, 53, of Le Sueur, Minn., was not hurt.
All three drivers were alone in their vehicles, wearing seat belts and no alcohol use was suspected, the State Patrol said.
Earlier, the patrol identified the victim of a fatal crash Thursday at the juncture of two highways in rural Isanti County as an Andover man.
Joshua D. Breen, 24, was killed when he drove his car through a stop sign at Hwy. 107 and was broadsided on Hwy. 65 by an SUV driven by a 39-year-old East Bethel man.
A passenger in his car, a 21-year-old woman from Cambridge, Minn., suffered minor injuries. One of the three passengers in the SUV also suffered minor injuries. The SUV's driver appeared unhurt, the patrol said.
Roads were dry at the time of that crash, about 5:40 p.m. Thursday.
No fatal or critical-injury accidents have been reported statewide Friday or Saturday of this Christmas weekend.
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