A 39-year-old driver from Hastings died Monday morning in a highway crash with a semi in South St. Paul.

The woman was driving a Chevrolet Malibu when she rear-ended a tractor trailer “at a high rate of speed,” according to the Minnesota State Patrol. It happened at 4:27 a.m. on eastbound Interstate 494 near Fifth Avenue.

The State Patrol plans to release the woman’s name on Tuesday.

The driver of the semi, a 39-year-old man from Holmen, Wis., was not hurt, the State Patrol said.

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