Friends, Family Give Accounts of Highway 36 Fatality, Details on Mother

The 23-year-old North St. Paul mother who died Thursday night while crossing Highway 36 had been returning from a trip to the gas station to get her 2-year-old son some candy, according to a report from the Star Tribune.

Friends who saw Alicia Galdick get hit as she crossed the street said she flew 35 feet and her son, who she was pushing in a stroller, flew 65 feet on impact, the report says.

Her son, who had non-life-threatening injuries according to the Minnesota State Patrol, has bruised lungs, a broken leg and a head injury, according to the report.

The Pioneer Press reports that friends standing with Galdick at the intersection tried to warn her she walked into danger, however, she saw the car too late and quickly pushed her son's stroller out of the way so that she would take most of the hit.

A friend said she graduated from in 2006 and worked at Marshalls in Maplewood, according to the report.

Minnesota Department of Transportation spokesman J.P. Gillach said the intersection ranks 15th on the top 200 list of the most dangerous at-grade intersections in the state, the report says.

There are a lot of crashes at the intersection said Minnesota State Patrol spokesman Lt. Eric Roeske, however the majority of them—like this one—involve someone not obeying the traffic signals.