Identity of two drivers killed in St. Croix County crash released

The St Croix County sheriff s office has distributed the identity of two men killed in an early morning Fourth of July crash St Croix County administration received a call about a m Friday from a cellphone s automatic collision notification Police tracked the phone and located a two-vehicle crash near the block of Highway DD in Baldwin Township According to a press release from the St Croix County sheriff s office Cody W Klasse from Emerald Wis was driving a Chevrolet Cruze traveling westbound on the highway and collided with Maxwell L Krueger of Baldwin Wisc who was driving a Chevrolet Equinox traveling eastbound Both men were pronounced dead at the scene No passengers were involved This affair represents the fourth and fifth traffic fatalities recorded by St Croix County in This crash remains under study Related Articles Three men shot overnight in St Paul prompting hospital lockdown dead in St Cloud after pickup driver flees police stop collides with car Man charged with having machete outside St Paul school gets probation Man charged with killing former Minnesota House speaker says he looks forward to truth coming out An MS- leader is sentenced to years in racketeering affair involving murders