Investigation in progress. The collison was just east of I-90 exit 242 into Lewiston on Conty Road 29. Image: Andy Frank
Head-on collision across median strip
LEWISTON, Minn. – Two drivers were killed in a collision on Interstate90 at the high bridge over Rush Creek. Killed instantly:
> Hadley Edwin Thompson, 83, of Pine Island.
> Warren Russell Hacker, 70, of Appleton, Wisconsin.
A passenger in Hacker’s vehicle, Patricia Rose Hacker, 71, also of Appleton, was taken 34 miles to a Rochester hospital. She was in critical condition. The accident was about 3:30 p.m. near the Enterprise rest stop. State troopers said that Thompson, in a 2022 Buick Enclave, was headed west toward Rochester. For reasons not immediately known, Thompson lost control and crossed the grass median into the oncoming Hacker vehicle The Hackers were eastbound toward Wisconsin in a 2023 Toyota Rav4. Pavement on both directions of four-lane I-90 was dry.