Traffic & Transit

Woman, 49, Killed In I-494 Crash In Inver Grove Heights

The crash happened just before 4:30 a.m. Monday morning.

INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, MN — A 39-year-old Hastings woman was killed in a crash on Interstate 94 in Inver Grove Heights early Monday morning.

Just before 4:30 a.m., a Chevy Malibu was going eastbound on I-494 when it rear-ended a Volvo semi tractor-trailer "at a high rate of speed," according to the Minnesota State Patrol.

The Malibu driver died. The semi driver — a 39-year-old man from Holmen, Wisconsin — was not injured in the crash.

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More details are expected to be released on Tuesday.

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