Two people had to be cut from their wrecked car after a crash at North Glenwood and Girard avenues in Minneapolis, and the driver who caused it never stuck around to help. Firefighters worked to free the driver and passenger, both of whom suffered injuries considered non-life-threatening, before they were taken to Hennepin County Medical Center. The other driver fled the scene, and police later found that driver's vehicle less than a mile north.
Other Driver's Vehicle Found Near North Emerson
The crash happened in the Harrison neighborhood, about a mile west of downtown Minneapolis, according to CBS News. Police located the fleeing driver's vehicle less than a mile north, near North Emerson and 11th avenues, and are continuing to investigate the hit-and-run.
Hennepin County Medical Center, where both crash victims were brought, is Minnesota's flagship Level 1 Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center and runs the state's busiest emergency department, according to UND Today. The victims were taken there after firefighters freed them from the vehicle.
What Minnesota Law Says About Leaving the Scene
Fleeing the scene of a crash that causes personal injury is its own crime in Minnesota, regardless of who caused the collision. Under Minnesota Statute § 169.09, failing to stop is a gross misdemeanor carrying up to a year in prison and a $3,000 fine, or a felony punishable by up to three years if the crash results in great bodily harm or death, per Sieben Edmunds Miller. The statute sets more serious penalties when a crash results in great bodily harm or death.
The Harrison crash adds to a string of recent local cases: a 9-year-old boy struck in Northeast Minneapolis earlier this month by a driver who fled on foot, and a March hit-and-run on Marshall Street NE that left a woman with life-threatening injuries after a driver fled.
North Side Streets Carry an Outsized Share of Severe Crashes
The stretch of North Minneapolis where this crash happened has seen deadly collisions before. In December 2024, a high-speed crash at Emerson Avenue North and 26th Avenue North killed two women and injured three others after a vehicle struck a car that careened into a bus shelter, with police at the time citing speed as a likely factor.
Citywide, severe crashes are heavily concentrated on a small slice of Minneapolis roadways. Vision Zero safety data from the City of Minneapolis shows that 64 percent of all fatal and serious injury traffic crashes between 2020 and 2024 occurred on just 10 percent of city streets, designated as High Injury Streets.
Minneapolis has been leaning on automated enforcement to try to blunt those numbers. The city launched a pilot program on October 1, 2025, installing speed cameras at five high-risk locations to catch drivers going 10 mph or more over the limit, according to MPR News. The 2025 plan called for adding 11 cameras the following year.
