A slew of emergency vehicles rushed to the intersection of U.S. Highway 61 and Northwest Fourth Avenue shortly after 6 p.m. after a three-car crash that left the involved vehicles severely damaged. When The Times was on the scene, it appeared that the vehicle occupants had already been extricated from the vehicles, but according to Forest Lake police, one person was transported to Regions Hospital with serious injuries (but was expected to survive) while two others had less severe injuries and were transported to Fairview Lakes Medical Center in Wyoming.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Roughly 15 emergency vehicles were counted at the scene of the crash around 6:30 p.m. Law enforcement had blocked both north and southbound Highway 61, though southbound drivers were being diverted to a side street that quickly brought them back onto 61 south of the crash.
One passenger car involved in the crash ended up in the ditch between the north and