Separate Truck Crashes Kill Three People

A 79-year-old truck driver from Lester Prairie, Minnesota, was killed Thursday afternoon after being struck by a northbound pickup on Highway 169 north of Mankato. The semi was parked on the highway’s right shoulder, and the driver was standing outside the cab when the pickup hit him. The pickup driver, identified as 52-year-old Javier Garcia Rivera of Kaufman, Texas, was not injured; authorities said he was not under the influence of alcohol.