State Patrol: Alcohol possible factor in Minn. crash that killed 6, including 3 teens

Minn. Patrol: Car wreck kills 6, including 3 teens

CAMBRIDGE, Minn. — The State Patrol says alcohol may have been a factor in a Minnesota car crash that killed six people, including three teenagers.

Patrol Lt. Eric Roeske says there was a smell of alcohol from a car that collided with a sport utility vehicle early Sunday on Highway 95 west of Cambridge, about 40 miles north of Minneapolis.

The patrol says the car was driven by a 16-year-old who got her license less than three weeks ago. She was hospitalized in serious condition.

Roeske says her passengers — 15-year-old Kelsee Blackledge, 16-year-old Stephen Kendryna, 17-year-old Travis Buchan and 21-year-old Travis Gryczkowski — were killed. Two people in the SUV also died. Their names haven’t been released.

The crash remains under investigation.