Minnesota
Recent crash reignites concerns over Minnesota Highway 42′s speed limit
EYOTA, Minn. (KTTC) – After Wednesday night’s crash in Olmsted County, the speed limit of Minnesota Highway 42 near Eyota was called into question once again. According to Eyota’s Mayor Tyrel Clark, the road’s speed limit has been a longstanding issue.
Clark and other residents say they believe the speed limit is too high.
“We’ve been concerned about the speed on Highway 42 for a number of years,” Mayor Clark said. “In fact, over the time of our concern, it’s actually gotten faster, went from 55 mph to 60 mph.”
Wednesday night, law enforcement responded to a crash on Highway 42 between a semi-truck and a farm tractor. The semi driver was not injured, but the tractor’s driver, 25-year-old Charles Sachs of Eyota, was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
Clark stated this week’s crash is one of many that have happened on this stretch of Highway 42.
“Mainly it has to do with the speed of vehicles, turning on and off vehicles, and then vehicles stopping along next to railroad tracks,” Clark said. “We have a lot of tanker trucks that stop at the railroad tracks over here, and, really, part of the slowing down of traffic is because of that. There’s a lot of stop vehicles directly on the highway and that has caused fatalities in the past.”
According to the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), changing the speed limit of a state highway is not a simple process.
“We aren’t able, like in our district, just to arbitrarily change speed limits,” MnDOT Spokesperson Michael Dougherty said. “We need to go through the whole analysis review and then it’s forwarded to our state traffic office that then looks through it and assures it. This is because you want to have predictable speed limits uniform across the state. So, no matter where you travel, you have a good sense of what those speed limits are.”
Dougherty stated a study on Highway 42 is currently in the works. Once it is completed, the results will be shared with the city.
“If it’s going to change, then how soon would the speed limit signs change? How do we make sure that there’s awareness so that drivers that maybe are used to a different speed now understand that’s changed?” Dougherty said. “If it stays the same, there will be information that our traffic engineer will talk about and explain why this was such and this is what the rules that we were following that led us to this determination.”
In the meantime, both Clark and Dougherty encouraged drivers to pay attention to the road and follow the traffic regulations.
“Everybody’s frustrated with how long it takes, but we are anticipating looking at that study, having them release that study, and we do appreciate them working on it.”
The study on Highway 42 is expected to wrap up this fall.
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Hughes scores in debut for Wild, who defeat Bruins for 4th straight win | NHL.com
The 26-year-old defenseman finished with three shots in 26:55 of ice time in his first game since being traded to Minnesota by the Vancouver Canucks on Friday for defenseman Zeev Buium, forwards Marco Rossi and Liam Ohgren, and a first-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft.
“It’s been a whirlwind for sure,” Hughes said. “I’m just looking forward to kind of getting my feet on the ground and get with the team here and get in a day-to-day lifestyle here. But definitely the last 48 hours have been a lot, but I was excited to go play the game.”
Kirill Kaprizov had two goals and an assist, Hartman had a goal and two assists, and Matt Boldy had a goal and an assist for the Wild (19-9-5), who extended their winning streak to four games and home point streak to 12 games (10-0-2). Filip Gustavsson made 29 saves.
“The crowd was electric I think just from the … I would say warmups to the introduction and then throughout the game,” Minnesota coach John Hynes said. “So, it was great to see the building like that and the guys perform the way that they did. So, it was a great combo.”
Alex Steeves and Andrew Peeke scored, and Swayman made 25 saves for the Bruins (19-14-0), who had won four straight.
“They’re a very good hockey team,” Boston coach Marco Sturm said. “They’re built pretty big, they play the right way, they play pretty hard, and they go to the net really hard, too. So, that’s something I mentioned, even between periods. That’s something we have to learn. And even if teams like that, we have to learn from that, and that shows we’re not there yet, and that’s a good thing, I think.
“Do we like the end results? No, but we had our chances in the first, even in the second period, and those are the chances that you have to use, otherwise it’s going to get hard against a team like that.”
Jared Spurgeon put Minnesota ahead 1-0 at 10:11 of the first period with a wrist shot through traffic as Swayman was screened by Marcus Johansson on a power play.
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Minnesota weather: How cold it got on Saturday
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Temperatures dropped into the negative Saturday, with the coldest temperatures in the morning.
How cold it got in Minnesota Saturday
By the numbers:
Here is how cold the temperatures got in Minnesota:
- Hinckley: -20 degrees
- Bemidji: -20 degrees
- Ely: -18 degrees
- Brainerd: -18 degrees
- Detroit Lakes: -18 degrees
- Hibbing: -17 degrees
- International Falls: -17 degrees
- Duluth: -16 degrees
- Alexandria: -12 degrees
- St. Cloud: -12 degrees
- Cambridge: -11 degrees
- Grand Marais: -10 degrees
- Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport: -6 degrees
- Red Wing: -6 degrees
- Morris: -6 degrees
- Hutchinson: -5 degrees
- Rochester: -5 degrees
- Mankato: -3 degrees
- Windom: 0 degrees
- Marshall: 0 degrees
Here are the lowest wind chills across Minnesota from Saturday:
- Bemidji: -37 degrees
- Ely: -35 degrees
- Duluth: -34 degrees
- Brainerd: -32 degrees
- Detroit Lakes: -32 degrees
- Hibbing: -31 degrees
- Alexandria: -29 degrees
- Hinckley: -27 degrees
- Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport: -24 degrees
- St. Cloud: -24 degrees
- Willmar: -22 degrees
- Cambridge-21 degrees
- Grand Marais: -21 degrees
- Hutchinson: -21 deegres
- Morris: -20 degrees
- Faribault: -18 degrees
- Mankato: -18 degrees
- Marshall: -17 degrees
- Red Wing: -16 degrees
- Owatonna: -16 degrees
- Windom-12 degrees
Cold continues Sunday
What’s next:
The Twin Cities are under a cold weather advisory that is expected to last through Sunday morning, so residents should prepare for frigid conditions if they have plans to be outdoors.
Sunday will be slightly less frigid with temperatures climbing above zero. However, it will still feel like 10 below zero in the afternoon.
Milder and warmer temperatures are expected to return for the work week.
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