Deputies with the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office were called around 3:23 p.m. on Jan. 19 to an injury crash at the intersection of 320th Street and Foliage Avenue.

First responders were called around 5:30 p.m. to the intersection of Upper 55th Street East and Blaine Avenue East after reports that a pedestrian had been hit.

Initial information says the driver of a 2015 Ford Fusion was traveling eastbound and the driver of a 2023 Freightliner semi was traveling westbound when they collided.

The crash happened at 8:38 a.m. on Jan. 6 when a straight truck traveling eastbound on Highway 7 near Cable Avenue collided with a westbound SUV at the intersection in Winsted Township.

Officers were dispatched to the crash at the intersection of Pilot Knob Road and Lone Oak Road around 5:15 p.m. Friday, Jan. 2.

The crash was reported around 6:45 a.m. on January 5 at mile marker 233 in Rockwood Township.

The driver was identified as Braden Charles Rahlf, of Rochester. State Patrol records say the crash happened around 5:54 a.m. on Jan. 3 on eastbound U.S. Highway 14 near milepost 206 in Kalmar Township.

The State Patrol said a Dodge Durango was traveling northbound on Highway 71 while a Kia Sportage was traveling southbound when the two vehicles collided in the intersection.

The occupant of the vehicle was extricated from their vehicle and transported to a hospital where they were pronounced deceased. Authorities have not released the identity of the driver.

Deputies were alerted to a two-vehicle crash with unknown injuries and arrived to find a GMC Sierra pickup and a Chevrolet Impala that had gone into the ditch near the intersection.

The difficult travel conditions came after freezing rain and sleet that moved across southern Minnesota, leaving roads coated with ice and making early-morning driving hazardous across much of the region.

Ralohn Lorrane Hare, 35, is charged in Ramsey County with two felony counts of criminal vehicular homicide stemming from the Nov. 2 crash near Arlington Avenue East and Prosperity Avenue.

39-year-old Danielle Lee Boyd was crossing the roadway when a northbound Cadillac CTS, driven by a 41-year-old man from Isle, hit her. The State Patrol says the driver was traveling northbound on Highway 47 near 400th Street.

Jeremy Robert Lind, of Ham Lake, is accused of causing the June 13 fatal crash at Highway 65 and Sims Road NE that left 74-year-old Audrey Marie Evans dead at the scene.

State Patrol officials said a 2015 Chevrolet Cruze went off the road and came to a stop in the median. The 66-year-old Forest Lake man driving the Cruze got out and walked into the northbound lanes.

The crash happened just after 8 a.m. at 190th Avenue in Wood Lake Township as crews across the region were responding to rapidly deteriorating road conditions.

A deputy arrived a few minutes later and found the crash involved an eastbound 2006 Mustang driven by an adult woman from Rochester and a westbound 2019 Toyota Tundra.

A GMC Acadia driven by 20-year-old Goay Gatluak Jikany approached from behind at a high rate of speed and struck the back driver’s side of the car.

For victims' families, the penalties for Criminal Vehicular Homicide often feel insufficient, yet prosecutors face a steep uphill battle to prove the "depraved mind" required for a murder conviction in a traffic incident.

The drivers of a westbound Chevrolet Equinox and an eastbound GMC Acadia collided on Highway 55 near County Road 33 around 2:34 a.m.