BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minn. –An Austin motorcyclist died in a collision with an automobile at a north Blooming Prairie intersection. Darren Samuel Thomas, 57, died apparently on imact. Both the motorcycle and the car were northbound on U.S. Highway 218 toward Owatonna, police said. The motorcycle was a 2008 Honda. The car was a 2003 Saturn L300 driven by Mya Anne Gaul, 21, of Montgomery. Neither she nor her passengers were injured: Elsa Renae Blake, 15, of Lansing, Iowa, and Allison Caelynn Olson, 16, of Austin. The accident was about 11:55 a.m.
