A 22-year-old mother-of-one was killed while sitting in her car at a stop sign when suspected distracted driver's vehicle went airborne and landed on her car.
Megan Goeltz, 22, of Hudson, Wisconsin, was sitting in her car in Washington County, Minnesota, when 20-year-old Drew T Fleming's vehicle fatally struck her on Monday evening.
The Saab driven by Felming, also from Hudson, was heading north Highway 95 when it crossed the southbound lands and went into a ditch, Minnesota police said.
Megan Goeltz, 22, of Hudson, Wisconsin, was sitting in her car in Washington County, Minnesota, when 20-year-old Drew T Fleming's vehicle fatally struck her on Monday evening
The mother-of-one was raising her three year old daughter on her own and working at a nearby nursing home. Fleming told police he may have been distracted when he lost control of his vehicle, causing to go into a ditch and go airborne
The vehicle then hit an embankment and went airborne, landing on Goeltz's Ford Fusion sitting at a three-way intersection in Lakeland Township.
A statement Tuesday afternoon from the state Department of Public Safety said: 'The 20-year-old driver, who is cooperating with investigators, indicated that he may have been distracted in the vehicle when he lost control of his car and landed on top of the victim's vehicle.'
Patrol Lt Tiffani Nielson told the Star Tribune that 'a number of distractions will be examined in this crash, including texting and [others] that may have been occurring in the vehicle when this crash occurred'.
Fleming was taken to Regions Hospital in St Paul and has since been released.
Megan's father, Thomas Goeltz, said that his daughter's death 'really hits home for me. I'm a safety consultant. I train people on distracted driving'.
He told the Star Tribune that he spent much of Tuesday 'calling relatives and crying'.
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Goeltz was sitting at a stop sign when Fleming's car went airborne and struck her vehicle. Fleming was taken to Regions Hospital in St Paul and has been released
Fleming's mother, Angela Fleming, said her son was not prepared to speak publicly about 'this horrific incident'.
'He's devastated right now,' she told the Star Tribune.
Goeltz was raising her three-year-old daughter on her own and was working at a nursing home before her death, her father said.
She was a certified nursing assistant and worked at the same facility she would visit as a child when her preschool would bring kids over to visit with the residents.
'She had an affinity (for) working with the elderly,' Thomas Goeltz told the Star Tribune.
It is illegal in Minnesota for drivers to read, compose or send texts and emails or access the internet while the vehicle is in motion or stopped in traffic.
Alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the Monday's crash.
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