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UPDATE: Truck Driver Identified in Fatal Crash
MELROSE -- Authorities have released the name of the truck driver who was killed in a crash on Interstate 94 near Melrose Thursday night.
He's been identified as 61-year-old Brad Patton from Albia, Iowa.
The Minnesota State Patrol says Patton was going east when the truck went off the road and into the media.
Troopers say he was not wearing his seatbelt.
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