Truck driver fatally crushed by pipe at Hwy. 169 construction site

A truck driver from Missouri has died while unloading large metal pipes at a construction site west of Minneapolis.

The Minnesota State Patrol says David Hyde was killed Monday afternoon when one of the heavy pipes rolled off the trailer and landed on him.

The patrol says the 38-year-old Fulton, Mo., man died at the scene at Highway 169 in Minnetonka.

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