Four Taken to Hospital Following Southeast Minnesota Crash
Houston, MN (KROC-AM News)- A single-vehicle crash near an intersection in southeast Minnesota sent multiple people to the hospital Saturday morning.
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A total of four people were injured. The State Patrol responded to the crash shortly after 8:15 a.m. near an intersection in Houston County.
A minivan traveling south on Hwy. 76 went off the road, struck a guardrail and overturned as it approached the highway’s intersection with County Rd. 9 just north of Houston, the state crash report says.
The driver is identified as 39-year-old Candace Kay Lepley of Elko New Market.
Lepley and her passengers, identified as 42-year-old Andrea Sue Hanson of Beaver Dam, WI, 43-year-old Jennifer Lorraine Hanson of Northfield and 72-year-old Lorraine Kay Hanson of Northfield, suffered what are being described as non-life-threatening injuries.
The women were taken to Gundersen Hospital for further care. Andrea and Jennifer were not wearing their seatbelts and alcohol was not involved in the crash, the report says.
Hwy. 76 was described as wet at the time of the crash. The Houston County Sheriff’s Office and Houston Fire & EMS also responded to the crash scene.
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