Minnesota’s Fatal 2020 Crash Numbers Up Despite Fewer Cars On Roads

By Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield, CBS Minnesota

December 9, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — New numbers out on traffic crashes in Minnesota are troubling and puzzling, even to the experts. Last year at this time there were 346 fatal accidents; this year, there have already been 372.

Most look away from crashes, but it’s the kind of scene Sgt. Kelly Phillips has to see up close. She’s a crash reconstructionist.

“We respond only to serious or fatal crashes to reconstruct them, so we see the worst of the worst all the time,” she said.

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