A man died Saturday night after walking into traffic and being struck by a minivan near Central Avenue NE and 125th Avenue NE in Blaine, according to authorities. Emergency crews were called to the intersection at approximately 7:36 p.m., and life-saving measures were attempted at the scene before the man was pronounced dead.
The Anoka County Sheriff's Office said the Blaine Police Department, the Spring Lake Park – Blaine – Mounds View Fire Department, and Allina EMS all responded to the report of a pedestrian hit by a motor vehicle. The sheriff's office said the minivan struck an adult man who had entered traffic on foot, and that the minivan's driver is cooperating with investigators.
Four Agencies Now Investigating
According to the sheriff's office, the case is being investigated by the Anoka County Sheriff's Office, the Blaine Police Department, the Minnesota State Patrol, and the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office. Authorities said they would release no further information at this time, leaving the identity of the man killed, along with further details about the crash, unconfirmed as of the latest update.
The Central Avenue crash was one of two fatal pedestrian crashes reported in Blaine that Saturday night, according to CBS Minnesota. The station described a separate incident in which a woman was struck by a pickup truck at Lexington Avenue Northeast and 125th Avenue Northeast, after police received a report of someone walking in traffic there as well.
A Third Crash the Same Night
CBS Minnesota also reported a pedestrian fatality on Highway 65 near 125th Avenue, roughly three-and-a-half miles from the Lexington Avenue crash it described, involving a 2012 Dodge Ram. The available reporting does not make clear how, or whether, all of these crashes relate to one another or to the incident the sheriff's office described at Central Avenue NE.
Per MN CRIME, the Minnesota State Patrol said that crash on Highway 65 happened at 7:48 p.m. Saturday on northbound Highway 65 at 125th Avenue. State Patrol identified the man killed in that crash as 42-year-old Anthony Wallace Santeramo of Blaine.
No cause or fault determination has been announced in the Central Avenue crash, and the sheriff's office has not said whether charges are being considered. Anyone with additional information has not been publicly asked to come forward, as authorities said they would not be releasing further details at this time.
