{"id":51060,"date":"2025-12-11T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=51060"},"modified":"2025-12-11T03:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:42:10","slug":"man-struck-killed-by-snowplow-at-minneapolis-saint-paul-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=51060","title":{"rendered":"Man struck, killed by snowplow at Minneapolis\u2013Saint Paul airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A 47-year-old man was struck and killed by a snowplow at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, according to local officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The incident was reported shortly after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at a parking lot near Terminal 2, according to Jeff Lea, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Airports Commission, which operates the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">That parking lot serves the in-flight catering services company LSG Sky Chefs.<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/11m-southwest-airlines-fine-waived-dot\/story?id=128178481\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Temperatures were in the upper 20s with light snow falling in the area at the time of the incident.&nbsp;Over 200 flights out of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul airport were delayed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The victim&#8217;s identity was not immediately released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Minnesota State Patrol is helping with the investigation, Lea said.<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/record-flooding-pacific-northwest-storms-atmospheric-river\/story?id=128273281\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The city of Minneapolis on Wednesday declared a snow emergency starting at 9 p.m., which bans certain street parking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;These rules help plows in clearing the streets so&nbsp;emergency vehicles and other traffic can get around,&#8221; city officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/man-struck-killed-snowplow-minneapolis-saint-paul-airport\/story?id=128283100\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 47-year-old man was struck and killed by a snowplow at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, according to local officials. The incident was reported shortly after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at a parking lot near Terminal 2, according to Jeff Lea, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Airports Commission, which operates the airport. That parking lot serves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":51062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1884,1350,29673],"class_list":["post-51060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-killed","tag-man","tag-struck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51063,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51060\/revisions\/51063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}