Warner Road Crash: 43 drivers involved in 2 crashes on Icy St. Paul Road

St. Paul, Minn. (Fox 9) And Impold road conditions led to two major crashes on Warner Road in St. Paul, who involved more than 40 drivers and left four people wounded on Thursday morning.

Crash on Warner Road

First crash:

St. Paul Police Department said there were two major crashes on Warner Road in the middle of icy road conditions on Thursday morning.

The first crash that took place around 1 p.m. 7.30, involved 13 vehicles. Police said two people were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries as a result of the collision.

Other crashes:

Only two hours later, approx. at. 9:45, another major crash happened on Warner Road just west of Highway 52. ​​Police said the incident involved 30 drivers and two more people were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The two crashes had closed Warner Road for a while, police said. While most of the cars sustained less damage, 12 vehicles had to be dragged.

Due to the icy road conditions, sand cars were requested to grind the road.

What we don’t know:

Police did not shared further details of the injuries or the circumstances of the crash.

Slick Road conditions

Back story:

Accommodation created snow smooth road conditions across Minnesota on Thursday morning, with several crashes and spinouts reported.

According to the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s site, there was light slush or ice on road surfaces in the Twin Cities Metro area, while some roads in southern and northern Minnesota were covered with snow or had ice on the surface on Thursday morning.

Several crashes were reported in and around the Twin Cities Metro on Thursday morning, some of which involved injuries. Wright County Sent on social media That the stretch of I-94 from clear water to Maple Grove has been a particularly smooth place for drivers. MNDOTS Web site indicated at least nine crashes and spinouts on the stretch of road from 7 p.m. 7.30 on Thursday.

Meanwhile, a Maple Grove police officer was wounded while responding to a crash just before 2 p.m. 05 Thursday. Minnesota State Patrol said the officer was in the Eastbound I-94 and Brockton Lane area when the team car was hit by another driver from behind. The officer was transported to North Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The other driver was undamaged by authorities.

Minnesota State Patrol has not released official crash numbers from Thursday afternoon, but told Fox 9 that there had been 30 crashes throughout the country from midnight to about 7.30

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