One dead after semi-truck accident in Dinkytown
The Minnesota Daily Thursday 21st April, 2011
21 A semi-truck hit and killed a woman, whose identity has not yet been confirmed, at the intersection of Fourth Street and 15th Avenue Southeast just in front of the Dinkytown McDonald's this morning. It's unclear whether the victim was a University of Minnesota student. Delaney Coyle, a junior in advertising, was getting a ride to campus around 8 a.m. when she drove past the scene. The victim was "lying there and people were trying to help her," she said. "She looked like a student on her way to class." Shortly before 8 a.m., emergency medical workers gave CPR to the woman in the street as others held up a sheet to block them from passersby. Minneapolis police said she was dead on arrival and were rerouting traffic around the intersection and interviewing witnesses after the accident...
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