A semi-trailer headed eastbound on Interstate 94 drove off the road onto a pond near Monticello this morning, then broke through the thin ice and sank.
State Patrol spokesman Eric Roeske said that the driver escaped with minor injuries after driving through a break in oncoming traffic after crossing the interstate median.
The accident happened just after 6 AM this morning, on the western end of the Minnesota Department of Transportation's test facility on I-94.
Roeske said arrangements are underway to get the truck winched out of the water.
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