6-year-old girl killed after wandering into freeway traffic in Burnsville
Associated PressAssociated Press , INFORUM
Published: 03/06/2010
BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) - The Minnesota State Patrol says a 6-year-old girl wandered into freeway traffic in Burnsville, where she was struck and killed by an SUV.
State Patrol Lt. Eric Roeske says Kallie N. Palmer had been playing at a friend's house Friday about 7:15 p.m.
He says it's not clear what happened after that. Investigators are still trying to piece together the circumstances that led her onto Interstate 35W.
He says the home's yard is encircled by a chain-link fence that would be about waist-high on an adult. He says she may have climbed over the fence.
Roeske says the whole situation was "pretty tragic."
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