State Trooper, Wife Survey Squad Car After Horrific Crash: Photos

As he examined the damage to his squad car from the May 15 crash for the first time, Sgt. Mike Krukowski becomes even more aware that he’s lucky to be alive. “My wife could have been planning my funeral,” the trooper said Thursday from a wheelchair.

Krukowski is nursing two broken feet and a broken arm. He says his seat belt saved his life.

Krukowski was in his squad car traveling southbound on Kenrick Avenue near 205th Street in Lakeville two weeks ago when a 2012 Chrysler 200 veered off Interstate 35, went through the freeway fence and struck the trooper’s squad head-on.

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The driver in the other vehicle was airlifted to North Memorial, where he died days later.

Krukowski and his wife Crissy urged motorists to buckle up and properly restrain their children in car seats at a press conference Thursday.

Images via Minnesota State Patrol