UPDATE: Fatal crash on I-35 near Twin Lakes
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Published: Sep. 15, 2022 at 5:17 PM CDT|Updated: Sep. 15, 2022 at 5:20 PM CDT
FREEBORN COUNTY, Minn. (KTTC) – A truck driver is dead after his semi crashed into a guard rail.
The Minnesota State Patrol says it was a 2017 Freightliner semi tractor trailer traveling northbound on I-35 near Mile Marker 3. It collided with a guard rail and started on fire.
The driver was 64-year-old Larry Dean Bamsey from Spirit Lake, Iowa.
The crash caused a major back up on Interstate 35 near Twin Lakes, south of Albert Lea. At times, it went to the Iowa border.
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Clean up has caused the road to stay closed for hours, and drivers are asked to avoid the area.
This is a developing story, stay close to KTTC online and on air as we learn more details.
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