Interstate 35 motorcycle crash kills passenger
By Jaime DeLage | jdelage@pioneerpress.com
June 12, 2016 | UPDATED: 1 min ago
The passenger of a motorcycle that crashed Saturday evening on Interstate 35 near Forest Lake died overnight of injuries sustained.
The Yamaha motorcycle was heading south on I-35 shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday when its back tire started to wobble, according to a Minnesota State Patrol report. The bike went down and both riders were seriously injured. No other vehicles were involved.
The passenger died shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday, the State Patrol said.
The patrol said it would release the victim’s name Sunday evening.
The Forest Lake accident followed fatal motorcycle crashes Thursday and Friday in Duluth and Rochester.
In Rochester, a motorcycle driver and passenger were killed in a collision with a vehicle Friday afternoon in the 2400 block of Marion Road in southeast Rochester. Curtis Buxton, 56, and Jennifer Buxton, 44, of Rochester were declared dead at the scene of the 3:40 p.m. collision, according to the Post-Bulletin.
The driver of the vehicle was hospitalized in critical condition at St. Marys Hospital.
In Duluth, a 23-year-old man died of injuries suffered in a crash involving a motorcycle and another vehicle Thursday night in Duluth’s Endion neighborhood. Duluth police reported the crash happened about 7:30 p.m. at 18th Avenue East and Fifth Street. The man, whose name has not been released, was riding a motorcycle west on Fifth Street and collided with a vehicle traveling north on 18th Avenue East.
The motorcycle rider, who was wearing a helmet, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The driver of the vehicle, a 63-year-old woman, was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.
The crash remains under investigation.