Authorities in northeastern Minnesota are investigating after a man driving a pickup truck hit and killed a young girl on a bicycle Friday evening.

An off-duty patrol officer with the Cloquet Police Department called dispatch at 5:10 p.m. to report a child had been struck by a pickup truck in Wrenshall, according to the Carlton County Sheriff's Office.

While waiting for first responders to arrive, the off-duty officer rendered aid to the girl and coordinated the response to the crash scene.

Depuites say the victim, an 11-year-old girl, had been riding her bike on Broadway Street near Crestwood Drive when a vehicle struck her. The driver of the truck, a 49-year-old man from Summerville, South Carolina, cooperated with investigators and had no signs of impairment, the sheriff's office sai

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