St. Paul, , MN : A least four people died in accident on Saturday, October, 28th 2017

A least four people died in accidents on roads left slippery by the first significant snowstorm of the season to strike Minnesota.

Plymouth police say a pedestrian helping a driver who spun out was hit by another vehicle that spun out around 12:15 a.m. Saturday on U.S.169. The pedestrian died at the scene. That person’s name hasn’t been released.

The State Patrol says a 58-year-old St. Paul man died around 9:30 p.m. Friday when his pickup spun out on U.S. 169 and rolled in Princeton. He was later identified as Clarence Allen Coker.

Two others died in storm-related crashes Friday morning: a 44-year-old Duluth trucker who went off Interstate 35 into the St. Louis River in Scanlon, and a 26-year-old Pierz man who died in a crash on Minnesota 25 near Brainerd.

The Minnesota State Patrol identified the truck driver Saturday as Christopher Michael Lucia, 44, of Duluth.

He was killed when his truck crashed about 4:41 a.m. Friday after sliding off the northbound lanes of I-35 and into the St. Louis River at Scanlon just before the bridge over the river.

The victim of the crash near Brainerd was identified as Alvaro Ambriz Rodriguez. Rodriquez died shortly after 9 a.m. Friday when his car slid into the path of an incoming semi as he tried to pass another vehicle on Minnesota 25.


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St. Paul man ID’d in crash blamed on season’s first snowstorm