Minn. woman dies trying to stop runaway truck
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Police say a Crosslake woman has died after she tried to stop a rolling pickup truck that her 2-year-old nephew was in.
Police Chief Bob Hartman says the 32-year-old was killed Thursday. The toddler wasn't hurt.
Hartman says the boy was playing inside the pickup when the truck began rolling backward down a hill. He says the woman jumped on the truck's running board and was reaching inside to put it in park when the vehicle sideswiped a large tree.
The woman got caught between the truck and the tree. A witness and emergency responders performed CPR but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Hartman says she apparently died of head trauma.
The Brainerd Dispatch report says her name has not been released.
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Information from: The Brainerd Daily Dispatch
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