Apple Valley Crash Leaves 1 With Life-Threatening Injury

APPLE VALLEY, MN — A motorcyclist suffered a life-threatening injury Monday in a crash on Interstate 35E in Apple Valley. Kurt Witthoeft, 54, of Faribault was riding a 2015 Harley Davidson Street motorcycle northbound at 8:01 a.m. when traffic slowed for merging vehicles near County Road 11. Witthoeft rear-ended a 2008 Chrysler Sebring being driven by Rebecca Elizabeth Ampe, 34.

Witthoeft suffered a life-threatening injury and was taken to St. Paul Regions Hospital. He was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Minnesota Patch, click here to find your local Minnesota Patch. Also, follow us on Facebook, and if you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

Ampe did not suffer injury in the crash. Burnsville and Apple Valley police assisted in the response.

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