Crime & Safety
Maple Grove Woman Gets Probation In Crash Killing 2 Girls
The collision killed two Mounds View High School students and injured a third. The three teens were on their way to school.
RAMSEY COUNTY, MN — The Maple Grove woman involved in a 2016 crash that killed two students from Mounds View High School and injured a third will see no prison time. Rachel Diane Kayl was instead sentenced to serve 10 years’ probation.
Kayl was driving over 80 miles per hour when she crashed on Highway 96, FOX 9 reports.
The site of the fatal crash was briefly closed in 2016 so students could leave memorials for the two girls who were killed, Bridget Giere and Stephanie Carlson.
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Giere and Carlson, 16, and Samantha Redden, 17, were in a Chevrolet Equinox on the way to school the morning of Dec. 1, 2016 when they were struck at an intersection in Arden Hills.
Redden suffered serious injuries but survived the crash.
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The juniors were turning left from westbound County Road 96 to Old Highway 10 when they were hit by a Chevrolet Trailblazer traveling east on 96.
Eddie Brody's memorial garden, in honor of Stephanie Carlson & Bridget Giere, will be dedicated on Oct 8 @ 2 PM at North Heights Church. pic.twitter.com/GpL1FAwOgh
— Mounds View High (@moundsviewhigh) October 5, 2017
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