A pickup truck rolled over and landed on its side in a ditch along Vickers Street Northeast in Cambridge Township Wednesday afternoon, leaving the adult male driver seriously injured and prompting a medical helicopter to fly both him and a juvenile passenger to the hospital. The juvenile appeared uninjured but was airlifted as a precaution, and as of Wednesday evening neither the driver nor the passenger had been publicly identified.
According to KSTP, Isanti County Dispatch received the call around 12:40 p.m. reporting a single-vehicle rollover in the 35100 block of Vickers Street Northeast. Witnesses told authorities the man had been driving southbound on Vickers Street when the truck drifted onto the northbound shoulder. The driver then appeared to overcorrect, sending the truck into a ditch, where it rolled over and came to rest on its side, per the same witness account relayed to investigators.
The driver sustained serious injuries and was transported by medical helicopter for treatment, according to Hometown Source. The juvenile passenger was also flown by medical helicopter as a precaution and appeared to be uninjured, the outlet reported. As of Wednesday's reporting, FOX 9 noted that authorities had not identified the driver or passenger and did not know their current conditions.
Multiple Agencies Converge on the Scene
Cambridge Police Department, Cambridge Fire Department and the Isanti County Sheriff's Office all responded to the crash, the Hometown Source report states. Additional agencies assisting at the scene included Allina Ambulance, Life Link, North Memorial Air Care, and Lakes Region EMS, according to the same account. Responsibility for the crash investigation was later transferred to the Minnesota State Patrol once troopers arrived.
The circumstances that sent the truck off the roadway — the shoulder drift, the overcorrection, and the roll into the ditch — all trace back to witness accounts relayed to authorities rather than a completed state investigation. No citation, charge or impairment finding has been confirmed in connection with the crash.
Earlier Serious Crashes in Isanti County
Wednesday's rollover follows other serious roadway incidents in Isanti County. In late July 2020, a 46-year-old Cambridge man was killed in a rear-end collision on Highway 95, according to FOX 9, which also reported that another man was hospitalized in that crash. And a pair of two-vehicle crashes on Aug. 22 and Aug. 24, 2024, left one person dead and six others with serious injuries, including two minors, per the Isanti-Chisago County Star.
That same report detailed how a northbound Dodge Dakota collided with a westbound Ram 2500 at Highway 65 and 269th Avenue Northeast, killing the Dakota's driver at the scene while the other driver was taken to Cambridge Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. Two days later, a Chevrolet Traverse failed to stop at a stop sign in Spencer Brook Township and struck a Honda Pilot, seriously injuring five people, including two children, some of whom were flown to a metro-area hospital, the outlet reported.
A separate April crash near a Dollar General in Isanti left Cambridge resident Amber Lynnette Shellito, 31, with life-threatening injuries after her Ford Flex collided with a semitrailer, according to Hometown Source. That driver was transferred to Hennepin County Medical Center, while the semitrailer's driver was not injured. No information connects these earlier crashes to Wednesday's rollover beyond their shared location in Isanti County, and no verified trend establishes whether serious crashes in the area are rising or falling.
