{"id":3280,"date":"2025-12-15T05:52:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:52:28","slug":"le-sueur-crash-freightliner-and-dodge-ram-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/le-sueur-crash-freightliner-and-dodge-ram-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Sueur Crash: Freightliner and Dodge Ram Collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"939\"><strong data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"553\">Le Sueur (trfnews.i234.me)<\/strong> \u2013 A crash occurred on December 10, 2025, at 8:54 PM on northbound Highway 169 near Milepost 80 in Le Sueur, Le Sueur County. A 2012 Dodge Ram 1500, driven by 64-year-old Rickey Randall Ites of Mankato, MN, collided with a 2018 Freightliner tractor-trailer, driven by 42-year-old Kevin Eugene Ruyle of Carrollton, IL. Both vehicles were traveling northbound when the collision occurred.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"941\" data-end=\"1289\">Ites, the driver of the Dodge Ram, was not wearing his seat belt and sustained non-life-threatening injuries. He was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center for treatment. Ruyle, the driver of the Freightliner, was wearing his seat belt and also sustained non-life-threatening injuries. He was transported to Le Sueur Hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"941\" data-end=\"1289\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3249 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hg-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hg-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hg-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hg.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1291\" data-end=\"1489\">The road conditions were dry at the time of the crash, and Le Sueur County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, Le Sueur Police Department, Le Sueur Fire Department, and Ridgeview Ambulance responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1491\" data-end=\"1601\">For winter and safe driving tips, visit the <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dot.state.mn.us\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1531\" data-end=\"1600\">Minnesota Department of Transportation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1603\" data-end=\"1670\">I&#8217;m Chris Harper reporting for <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1634\" data-end=\"1669\">TRF News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Sueur (trfnews.i234.me) \u2013 A crash occurred on December 10, 2025, at 8:54 PM on northbound Highway 169 near Milepost 80 in Le Sueur, Le Sueur County. A 2012 Dodge Ram 1500, driven by 64-year-old Rickey Randall Ites of Mankato, MN, collided with a 2018 Freightliner tractor-trailer, driven by 42-year-old Kevin Eugene Ruyle of Carrollton,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/le-sueur-crash-freightliner-and-dodge-ram-collide\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Le Sueur Crash: Freightliner and Dodge Ram Collide<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":null,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"default","_google_business_share_type":"default","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[16],"tags":[1791,85,3504,998,3439,3632,3420,3427,3631,3633,3629,3630,3411,480,3634,3635],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents","tag-accidents","tag-and","tag-collide","tag-crash","tag-dodge","tag-dodge-ram-collision","tag-dry-road-conditions","tag-freightliner","tag-freightliner-crash","tag-highway-169-accident","tag-le-sueur","tag-le-sueur-county","tag-non-life-threatening-injuries","tag-ram","tag-ridgeview-ambulance","tag-sueur","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}