G4 SP FLC AT MSP BRIEFLY TOUCHED DOWN AFTER BEING INSTRUCTED TO GO AROUND BECAUSE OF A VEHICLE XING THE RWY. THE ACFT CROSSED OVER THE VEHICLE BY APPROX 500 FT.

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JUST PRIOR TO TOUCHDOWN; IN FLARE; TWR CTLR ISSUED US AN ORDER TO GO AROUND. PNF CONFIRMED VERBALLY THE GAR ORDER AND THE PF ADDED PWR FOR THE GAR PROCESS. AT THE SAME TIME; THE PNF CONFIRMED THE REASON FOR THE GAR AS A RWY INCURSION BY A GND VEHICLE. THE POINT OF GAR HAPPENED AT APPROX 'A3' AND THE VEHICLE WAS JUST PASSING THE 'HOLD SHORT MARKINGS' AT TXWY D AND RWY 30L IN AN ATTEMPT TO CROSS R TO L ON THE RWY. A TWR SPOKESPERSON ESTIMATED THERE WAS 3600 FT BTWN WHERE WE WERE ISSUED THE GAR AND WHERE THE VEHICLE CROSSED THE RWY. THE VEHICLE DID CROSS THE RWY CHASING A DOG AND SHORTLY THEREAFTER COMMITTED ANOTHER RWY INCURSION BY XING THE SAME RWY IN ITS ATTEMPT TO CATCH THE DOG. THE VEHICLE WAS AN ARPT VAN USED AS 'EQUIP SVCS PERSONNEL;' FOR PET TRANSPORT. I WAS INFORMED THAT THE DRIVER WAS AN ARPT EMPLOYEE. OUR MAIN WHEELS DID TOUCH THE RWY DURING THE TIME PWR WAS ADDED. WE FOLLOWED THROUGH WITH THE GAR SINCE PROPER SPDS WERE ATTAINED. THE DISTANCE BTWN OUR AIRPLANE AND THE GND VEHICLE WAS APPROX 3600 FT. BOTH THE PNF AND PF HAD NO DOUBT THAT A SUCCESSFUL GAR WOULD HAPPEN WITH PLENTY OF ROOM TO CLR THE VEHICLE. LATER; WE WERE GIVEN A PHONE NUMBER BY THE APCH CTL TO CONTACT THE TWR AFTER LNDG.