ST. JOSEPH, Minn. –A Minnesota State trooper was hurt when his squad car was struck by another vehicle. Trooper Matthew Carlson, 31, was taken nine miles to a St. Cloud hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The accident was on Interstate 94 near St. Joseph just before 6 a.m. The State Patrol said Carlson was parked with his emergency lights at a crash in the median. A second car driven by Mark Hoffman, 49, of St. Cloud, struck the squad car as he passed. Hoffman was not hurt.
