22-year-old victim identified in north Minneapolis fatal crash

A 22-year-old man has been recognized as the one that died in a north Minneapolis two-vehicle crash Sunday morning.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Workplace mentioned Josiah Robert Oakley, of Minneapolis, died from a number of blunt pressure accidents. In line with an post-mortem, he was pronounced useless on the scene of forty second Avenue N. and Lyndale Avenue N. at 12:40 a.m..

Police say Oakley was driving south on Lyndale when one other driver entered the intersection at forty second Avenue North at a excessive charge of velocity, crashing into Oakley’s car.

The opposite driver, recognized as a 39-year-old man, was taken to a close-by hospital with “probably life-threatening” accidents. There isn’t any phrase on the person’s medical situation as of Tuesday morning.

Many on social media shared their grief over Oakley’s dying. He’s a former pupil of Minneapolis Edison Excessive College, the place he was a member of the chess group that gained the Minneapolis Public Faculties event in 2017.

“You at all times stored your thoughts challenged by puzzles, and also you included anybody round to hitch you. I am unable to consider you are gone,” one individual wrote.

The Minneapolis Police Division is continuous to analyze the crash.