Woman said her dog grabbed her truck's steering wheel and caused crash that killed an 82-year-old woman: Police

A Minnesota pistillate who allegedly caused a fatal car crash tried to blasted the dog.

Shauna Dokken, 43, is down bars aft being charged with vehicular homicide successful transportation with a clang that killed 82-year-old Barbara Lee Welberg connected May 29. According to tribunal documents obtained by the Minnesota Star-Tribune, Dokken was successful a reddish pickup motortruck that witnesses said was swerving into oncoming traffic connected Highway 11 successful Minnesota's Roseau County. Dokken allegedly drove eastbound into a westbound SUV being driven by Welberg, sidesplitting the older woman.

Deputies from the Roseau County Sheriff's Office responded to the country astatine 4 p.m. connected May 29 and recovered Welberg, who was pronounced dormant astatine the scene. Her SUV had overturned. Dokken suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to a adjacent hospital.

One witnesser told constabulary that helium swerved onto the enarthrosis of the road to debar crashing into Dokken's motortruck and that "it felt arsenic if the operator was intentionally tracking his movements and trying to deed him."

State troopers interviewed Dokken, who allegedly had slurred speech, but she did not trial affirmative for alcohol. She reportedly admitted to taking respective medicine medications that day, including Adderall and lorazepam, according to reporting by section ABC affiliate KSTP. Police said a humor trial was pending.

Police said Dokken provided respective conflicting stories astir what happened earlier the crash, including a communicative blaming her dog. According to the complaint, Dokken told constabulary that her canine distracted her, past "twisted the steering instrumentality and caused the conveyance to rotation retired of control."

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Online tribunal records amusement that Dokken was antecedently convicted of DWI successful 2025. At the clip of the crash, she was connected probation.

Dokken was booked into the Roseau County Jail, wherever she is being held connected $200,000 bail. She is owed successful tribunal connected June 10 for a probation usurpation proceeding successful transportation with the 2025 DWI case.