3 Sent to Hospital in Separate Southeast Minnesota Crashes Thursday

Undated (KROC-AM News)- The State Patrol responded to two injury crashes in southeast Minnesota Thursday morning. 

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One crash occurred in Olmsted County and the other happened in Goodhue County. Three people were taken to hospitals following the crashes. 

The first crash happened shortly after 6:30 a.m. on Hwy. 58 south of Red Wing. The state crash report says a southbound car collided with an embankment in the ditch on the left side of the two-lane highway. 

The driver, identified as 27-year-old Cody Allen Williamson of Clarks Grove, was taken to a hospital in Red Wing for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. He was not buckled up and not under the influence of alcohol, the report says. 

The Goodhue County Sheriff’s Office, Goodhue Fire Department, Goodhue First Responders and the Red Wing Fire Department also responded to the single-vehicle crash. 

The second crash, which involved two vehicles, happened about an hour later on Hwy. 14 in Byron. The state crash report says a car and SUV traveling in the eastbound lanes of the four-lane highway collided. 

42-year-old Robin Marie Fries Marquardt of Dodge Center was identified as the car driver and the SUV driver, 66-year-old Halina Woroncow of Mantorville, were both taken to St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. 

Both drivers were buckled up and alcohol was not involved in the crash. The Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office and Mayo Clinic Ambulance responded to the crash.  

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