Crime & Safety
Maple Grove Woman Pleads Guilty In Crash That Killed 2 Girls
The collision killed two Mounds View High School students and injured a third. The three teens were on their way to school.
MOUNDS VIEW, MN — A Maple Grove woman pled guilty Thursday to criminal vehicular homicide in connection with a 2016 crash that killed two students from Mounds View High School and injured a third.
Rachel Diane Kayl, now 33, confessed she was driving approximately 80 mph when she crashed into the teens’ vehicle, the Pioneer Press reported. Kayl was driving in a 50 MPH zone, according to the newspaper.
The site of the fatal crash was briefly closed in 2016 so students could leave memorials in memory of 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 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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