ST. PAUL
A 33-year-old St. Michael, Minn., man is in critical condition after he was hit by a car while trying to retrieve his dog on eastbound Interstate 94 near Hudson, Wis., late Saturday night, the Wisconsin State Patrol said.
Joshua James Davis walked onto I-94 in an attempt to catch his dog and was struck by a car driven by 18-year-old Samantha Russell of Lindstrom, Minn., at about 11:30 p.m., the State Patrol said.
Davis was taken to Regions Hospital in St. Paul, where he remains in critical condition.
Russell and her passenger were not injured.
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Two of the three lanes of eastbound I-94 were closed for about two hours as authorities investigated and cleared the crash scene.
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
