ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Two motorists were killed late Wednesday night in a collision with a pickup truck that St. Cloud police say fled from an earlier traffic stop.
The incident occurred at about 11:45 p.m. Wednesday, according to the St. Cloud Police Department.
According to the department, a St. Cloud police officer saw a pickup truck traveling south on Ninth Avenue North at a high rate of speed with its headlights off. Police said the truck was traveling “well above the posted speed limit.”
The officer pulled the truck over in the 1100 block of Eighth Avenue North. As the officer approached the vehicle, the driver threw something out of the passenger side window and began to flee the scene.
By the time the officer returned to his squad car, the truck was no longer in sight, so the officer did not pursue. When the officer searched the area of the traffic stop, he found that the item thrown from the truck was a firearm.
At that same time, a crash occurred in the 1300 block of 10th Avenue North.
An initial investigation by police determined that the fleeing truck was heading north on 10th Avenue North at “an extremely high rate of speed.” A passenger car was traveling west on 13th Street North. The truck T-boned the car in the intersection.
The car’s two occupants, a 59-year-old male driver and a 45-year-old male passenger, both from St. Cloud, died, police said.
The driver of the truck, a 26-year-old man from Sauk Rapids, was taken to St. Cloud Hospital, where police say he was in critical condition.
This case is under investigation by St. Cloud police and the Minnesota State Patrol.
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