St. Cloud Driver Dies In High-Speed Crash

ST. CLOUD (WJON News) -- UPDATE: The two people involved in the fatal high-speed chase on Monday night have been identified. The driver of the car who died in the chase has been ID by the Minnesota State Patrol as 41-year-old Mohamud Mahamad Yusuf of St. Cloud. The person who was injured in the parked pickup truck was 53-year-old Mark Weber of St. Cloud.

ORIGINAL STORY -- A St. Cloud man is dead after a high-speed chase on University Drive on Monday night. The St. Cloud Police Department says at about 10:40 p.m., an officer saw a car traveling west on University Drive near Killian Boulevard at a high rate of speed. Radar indicated the vehicle was going 62 miles per hour in a posted 30 miles per hour zone.

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The officer attempted to stop the car being driven by Yusuf, but he accelerated and failed to stop. Pursuit was started as Yusuf crossed University Bridge, but was halted when he entered the eastbound lane. Yusuf then continued speeding and entered the roundabout at 5th Avenue, where he collided with a parked truck and a light pole in the parking lot of an apartment building at the southwest intersection. Police Officers, Mayo Paramedics, and St. Cloud firefighters attempted life-saving measures, but Yusuf was pronounced dead at the scene. No other people were in the fleeing car.

Weber was in the parked pickup truck and taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The case remains under investigation, but authorities say Yusuf's license was cancelled due to his past driving conduct.

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