A member of the St. Cloud, Minnesota, police department has died following a crash on Monday night.

Police Chief Jeff Oxton says Officer Ryan Ebert died Saturday morning at Hennepin County Medical Center from his injuries, which were determined by medical staff earlier this week to not be survivable.

Ebert, who the Minnesota State Patrol listed as being 44 years old , was an 18-year veteran of the department, said Oxton, who added Ebert served as an investigator and a patrol officer.

The crash happened shortly before 10 p.m. on northbound Highway 77 near Interstate 35E in Apple Valley. According to the state patrol, Ebert was driving a 2024 Dodge Ram 1500 on the highway when his truck hit a 2018 Transit Bus and a cable barrier.

The bus driver, a 65-year-old man identified by the st

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