Friend IDs woman killed in Twin Cities collision with pickup driver who briefly fled scene

A pickup truck driver hit an SUV at a Twin Cities intersection and fled briefly from the wreckage where the other motorist was dying, officials said.

The crash occurred late Friday afternoon in Andover at the intersection of 165th and 7th avenues NW., the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office said.

The 48-year-old pickup driver from Andover remains jailed on suspicion of criminal vehicular homicide while under the influence of alcohol.

Charges against the man could come as soon as Monday. The Minnesota Star Tribune generally does not identify suspects before they are charged.

Officials have yet to release the name of the SUV driver who died, but a close friend and neighbor identified her as 74-year-old Alice Ann Stack, of Andover.

“We moved in at the same 18½ years ago,” said Kristine Iskierka, who lives two house from where Stack did.

Iskierka said Stack “never married, but she was a grandma to multiple people and was our kids’ grandma. She was more like a sister to me. She always said she was my Thelma and I was her Louise.”

Iskierka said she got word of the crash close to their neighborhood from her daughter, “who was on the way home from work and saw it.”

Stack, a lifelong Andover resident, “loved hanging out with her dog, Molli Ann, and visiting with her many friends in the neighborhood,” Iskierka said. “She always had a story to tell or a treat to give you if you’ve gave her a visit. She loved her potted flowers and sitting on her porch and watching the people pass by with a cup of sweet tea.”

According to the Sheriff’s Office:

The pickup was heading west on 165th about 5:45 p.m. when it struck the SUV as it traveled south on 7th.

“Following the crash, the male fled the scene and was located a short time later” and arrested, a Sheriff’s Office statement read.

Emergency medical responders took the woman to a nearby hospital, where she died.