A 22-year-old Maplewood man was killed in a car crash Sunday morning on Interstate 694 in Oakdale when he stopped his vehicle in the middle of the freeway and was rear-ended by another vehicle.
According to the State Patrol, the collision occurred at 5:55 a.m. on I-694 south just south of 10th Street. The driver, Cody Gerald Heidenreich, stopped a 2009 Nissan Cube in the center lane of the freeway.
The driver of a 2009 Cadillac Escalade, a 52-year-old man from St. Paul, rear ended the Cube, which sent it flying into the right ditch where it struck a light pole.
Heidenreich died and a passenger in his vehicle, a 22-year-old woman from Cottage Grove, was taken to Regions hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The driver of the Escalade was not injured.