Lake Williams,MN : Motorist dies week after crashing into State Patrol squad on May,Thursday 24th 2018

The Lakeville man who crashed head-on into a Minnesota State Patrol trooper last week has died, according to his family.

Wesley Paul Briggs, 29, was driving a Chrysler minivan north on Interstate 35 in Lakeville on the afternoon of May 15, when he veered off the freeway, through a barrier fence and onto a frontage road, where he struck the state trooper head-on, according to a report by the Minnesota State Patrol.


Briggs was airlifted from the scene of the crash to to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale with serious injuries. He died Tuesday afternoon, he family wrote in a post on his CaringBridge page website.

The state trooper, 35-year-old Sgt. Mike Krukowski of Oakdale, was initially pinned inside his Chevrolet Tahoe squad vehicle, but he was freed by first responders and taken by ambulance to Hennepin County Medical Center with a broken arm and broken bones in his feet.

In a video posted to Twitter on May 16, Krukowski said he has "a bit of a journey" ahead of him, "but I'm on the way to recovery." Krukowski was released from the hospital earlier this week and is recovering at home.

The cause of the crash is under investigation, including whether drugs or alcohol were a factor, the State Patrol said.

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Motorist dies week after crashing into State Patrol squad