Michelle L. Bartell, 45, a mother of three from Ramsey, was checking on another driver whose car had rolled over on the icy pavement when another vehicle slid off the same road and hit her, killing her.
Family members say its no surprise she would help someone in distress.
"She was always out to help everybody," her sister, Pamela Payne, 46, said. "It didn't surprise us that she would get out of her vehicle and help someone in need."
Bartell spun out Saturday morning on Interstate 35. William B. Franks, 58, also spun out. Batell and Franks were waiting for a tow truck when a third vehicle, driven by Tirrell R. Corgard, 70, rolled over. Bartell and Franks went to check on Corgard when a fourth vehicle struck Bartell.
Bartell is survived by her parents, a second sister and three children ages 21, 20 and 14.
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This is really sad! She must have been a really nice person.
ReplyDeleteThis is so sad! I feel so bad for her family.
ReplyDeleteThis is really sad. This doesn't really seem like a summery but more like an actual news story.
ReplyDeleteI saw this story earlier and was thinking about summarizing it, but I didn't know how because it seems so much like an obituary and I don't like obituaries very much. You did a really good job writing the lead. I thought the lead in the Star Tribune was awful.
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