Belle Plaine Woman Dies After Carver Co. Motorcycle Crash

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A woman died Tuesday after a motorcycle crash in Carver County.

According to the Carver County Sheriff's Office, the crash was reported at 12:48 p.m. on County Road 40, east of State Highway 25. The motorcyclist was traveling eastbound on the county road before going off the road and crashing.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office identified the motorcyclist as 30-year-old Jessica Peterson of Belle Plaine.

Peterson was taken by ambulance to St. Francis Hospital in Shakopee, where she later died. Her cause of death was listed as multiple blunt force injuries.