{"id":3286,"date":"2025-12-15T05:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:58:15","slug":"maple-lake-crash-jeep-compass-and-ford-edge-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/maple-lake-crash-jeep-compass-and-ford-edge-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Lake Crash: Jeep Compass and Ford Edge Collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"581\" data-end=\"1059\"><strong data-start=\"581\" data-end=\"613\">Maple Lake (trfnews.i234.me)<\/strong> \u2013 On December 11, 2025, at 6:24 AM, a collision occurred at the intersection of MN Hwy 55 and Spruce Ave in Maple Lake, Wright County. A 2016 Jeep Compass, driven by 47-year-old Maaret Kaatsep Petaisto of Buffalo, MN, was traveling westbound on Highway 55 when it collided with a 2014 Ford Edge, driven by 40-year-old Ryan Donald Lommel of Litchfield, MN. Lommel was northbound onto Spruce Ave when the two vehicles collided in the intersection.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1061\" data-end=\"1320\">Petaisto, the driver of the Jeep, was wearing her seat belt and sustained non-life-threatening injuries. She was transported to Buffalo Hospital for treatment. Lommel, the driver of the Ford Edge, was also wearing his seat belt and was uninjured in the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1061\" data-end=\"1320\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3251 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lo-300x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lo-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lo-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lo-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lo-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lo-1568x1045.webp 1568w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lo.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1322\" data-end=\"1521\">The road conditions at the time were snow-covered and icy, which contributed to the crash. Wright County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Maple Lake Fire Department, and Maple Lake Ambulance responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1523\" data-end=\"1631\">For winter driving safety tips, visit the <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dot.state.mn.us\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1561\" data-end=\"1630\">Minnesota Department of Transportation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1633\" data-end=\"1700\">I&#8217;m Chris Harper reporting for <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1664\" data-end=\"1699\">TRF News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maple Lake (trfnews.i234.me) \u2013 On December 11, 2025, at 6:24 AM, a collision occurred at the intersection of MN Hwy 55 and Spruce Ave in Maple Lake, Wright County. A 2016 Jeep Compass, driven by 47-year-old Maaret Kaatsep Petaisto of Buffalo, MN, was traveling westbound on Highway 55 when it collided with a 2014 Ford&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/maple-lake-crash-jeep-compass-and-ford-edge-collide\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maple Lake Crash: Jeep Compass and Ford Edge 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":[1791,85,3662,3504,3666,998,3449,894,3659,3661,2032,3658,1455,3665,3657,3664,3660,3581,3543,3663],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents","tag-accidents","tag-and","tag-buffalo-hospital","tag-collide","tag-compass","tag-crash","tag-edge","tag-ford","tag-ford-edge-collision","tag-intersection-crash","tag-jeep","tag-jeep-compass-crash","tag-lake","tag-maple","tag-maple-lake","tag-maple-lake-fd","tag-mn-hwy-55","tag-snow-ice-road-conditions","tag-wright-county","tag-wright-county-sheriff","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","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=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3289,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3289"}],"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=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}