At 3:28 AM on November 2, 2025, officers were sent to Arlington Avenue East and Prosperity Avenue, St. Paul, Ramsey County on a single car crash with a vehicle on fire and a woman trapped inside. The intersection is controlled with stop signs in all directions. Officers found a Dodge Grand Caravan bearing Minnesota license plates SSL275 with heavy front-end damage off the road and in the grass against two trees. It appears that the Caravan had been heading south on Hazelwood Street, blown through the stop sign, jumped the curb, gone off road, and crashed into a tree.
The Caravan’s car battery and vehicle parts were scattered throughout the grass and road. Fire rapidly spread from the front hood to the Caravan’s interior. The Caravan’s driver’s door was open. Officers found RALOHN LORRANE HARE ([DOB redacted]) lying in the grass on the Caravan’s driver’s side. Officers dragged Hare away from the Caravan. When asked what happened Hare said she was distracted while driving by talking to QG and reaching into the White Castle bag to grab a chicken ring. Hare hit a curb and ended up in the grass.
Hare said QG was unconscious and had her seatbelt on. Hare complained of chest pain, right leg pain, and right foot pain and said she could not walk. Hare repeatedly asked if police got QG out of the Caravan. Hare agreed to provide a preliminary breath sample, but she couldn’t give a sufficient sample due to chest pain. Other field physical field sobriety testing was not performed due to Hare’s leg injury. Medics transported Hare to Regions Hospital. QG ([DOB redacted]) was unconscious and trapped inside the burning Caravan’s front passenger seat.
The front passenger seat’s airbag had deployed. Officers used fire extinguishers to little or no effect in suppressing the fire. Officers tried to open the front and rear passenger doors to remove QG, but the door frames were bent and would not open. Officers tried pulling QG from the passenger window, but within seconds fire fully engulfed the Caravan’s cabin, and the heat and flames forced officers to abandon their attempts to rescue QG. Firefighters responded to the scene and put out the fire.
They pronounced QG dead at 3:36 AM. Officers spoke to a witness who heard a loud boom and came out of her home to find the crashed Caravan. A man by the Caravan initially told the witness that police were not needed. The witness saw Hare walking around. Hare eventually sat down in the location where police found her. The witness saw the Caravan on fire and called 911. The man who had initially told the witness not to call police frantically tried to open all the Caravan’s doors to remove a woman he said was trapped inside.
The witness told police accidents frequently occur at the intersection because people do not realize that Hazelwood Street doesn’t continue in a straight line and turns into Prosperity Avenue at an angle. Officers spoke to Hare at the hospital. She said she and QG got food from White Castle at [address omitted]. Hare said she is from Minneapolis and normally takes White Bear Avenue to her home, but QG told Hare they could take Prosperity Avenue. Hare and QG had a friendly argument over whose food was whose as they drove 30-35 mph down the road.
