STORIES OF THE YEAR: Target Truck Loses Control, Slides into Pond off I-94 Near Albertville: No. 7 Top Story of 2012
A semi truck pulling a Target trailer left the road Friday morning about five miles west of Albertville and sank into an icy pond.
As we get closer to the end of the year, St. Michael Patch highlights stories shared with the community in 2012. This was the No. 7 most-read story on St. Michael Patch this year. It was published Jan. 6, 2012. --------- Friday morning's commute was brought to a screeching halt around 6:15 a.m. when a semi driver and his rig left the road, crashed through a series of fences and sank through an icy pond. The crash, which happened near mile marker 197 on Interstate 94, according to the Minnesota Highway Patrol, started in the eastbound lane. But driver John Netiffee of Anoka was able to avoid the westbound lanes of traffic and skidded his rig across several hundred yards of ice before it sank into the freezing water. Netiffe climbed out of …
Luke
1:52 pm on Sunday, December 23, 2012
Denise, its a re-cap of last years story more ›