The driver, a 27-year-old Golden Valley man, was killed in a single-vehicle accident in St. Paul over the weekend.
About 2:15 a.m. on Sunday, Youssef M. Fakhreddine was operating a pickup truck westbound on Shepard Road beneath the Robert Street Bridge when it swerved off the road and struck a tree, a street sign, and a metal and masonry barrier next to a Mississippi River cycling and pedestrian route.
Fakhreddine was pronounced dead at the spot by the paramedics. As of Tuesday, a 34-year-old passenger who was treated at the hospital and later discharged.
Police are looking into the collision.
