At least seven motorcyclists have been killed across the state in the past week, including one in Burnsville and one in Bloomington Thursday, authorities said.
Joseph Stephen Keefe, 36, was killed Thursday in a motorcycle crash at West 84th Street and Blaisdell Avenue South in Bloomington, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The medical examiner’s office also reported that Peter Vsevolod Genis, 17, died Thursday when his motorcycle crashed at northbound 35 W and the Burnsville Parkway on-ramp in Burnsville.
Among the previous fatalities:
A motorcyclist was killed in Winona County shortly after 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3 when he left northbound Minnesota 74 near Park Road and crashed. Ross Anthony Stensrud, 61, of Rochester, was pronounced dead at the scene.
A motorcyclist was killed shortly before noon on Saturday, Oct. 5, in Oak Grove while turning left in the 3200 block of Viking Boulevard Northwest. Kelly Matthew Linder, 49, of Albert Lea, died after an eastbound SUV struck him from behind.
On Saturday, October 5, a motorcyclist was killed in Minnetonka shortly before 8 p.m. when the motorcyclist, who was traveling westbound on US 12 from Carlson Parkway, struck a curb. Garrett Mathew Dawson, 58, of Becker, was pronounced dead at the scene. His passenger, a 58-year-old woman from Buffalo, was not seriously injured.
A motorcyclist was killed shortly after noon on Sunday, October 6, in Anoka. Bradley Alan Brockel, 52, of Ramsey, was killed when his motorcycle left the roadway on westbound Green Haven Parkway near Thurston Avenue.
A motorcyclist was killed shortly before 7 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, in a collision with an SUV at West Arrowhead and Rice Lake roads in Duluth. The motorcyclist, who was pronounced dead at the scene, could not immediately be identified.
All fatal crashes remain under investigation by the State Patrol or local authorities.
