Another Double Fatal Crash on Highway 61 in the Twin Cities

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Cottage Grove, MN (KROC-AM News) - Police in a St. Paul suburb are reporting that two people were killed this morning in a head-on crash involving a wrong-way driver.

The Cottage Grove Public Safety Department is reporting that two other people were transported to Regions Hospital in St. Paul with critical injuries following the deadly collision.

It was reported on Highway 61 around 8:15 AM. The site of the deadly crash is only about 10 south of the area where two 17-year-old boys from Prescott, Wisconsin were killed in a high-speed crash late Friday night.

The State Patrol is investigating both fatal crashes. The names of the people involved in this morning's head-on collision have not been released.