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Woman arrested after deadly 3-vehicle crash in Maple Grove

One of the drivers was later arrested on suspicion of criminal vehicular operation.
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MAPLE GROVE, Minn. — Police say a woman is in custody after a three-vehicle crash left one dead and another seriously injured. 

The Maple Grove Police Department said officers were called to the crash just before 4:30 a.m. Sunday on the 15500 block of Country Road 81. They found a three-vehicle crash.

One driver, a 67-year-old woman, was declared dead at the scene. Police said another driver, a 31-year-old man, was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. 

The third driver was a 21-year-old woman with injuries that weren't life-threatening, police said. She was also taken to a local hospital but was later arrested. 

Police said she was booked at the Maple Grove Detention Facility on suspicion of criminal vehicular operation, but as of 1 p.m. she has not been formally charged. 

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office will release the identity of the woman who was killed, along with her cause of death, at a later date. Police said the crash is under active investigation.

   

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