COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. — Two people are dead and two are injured after a head-on vehicle crash in Cottage Grove Sunday morning.
The MN State Patrol said at 8:13 a.m. a Ford Fusion, which was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of US Highway 61, collided with an Audi Q5.
MSP said the driver of the Ford Fusion, 95-year-old Julia Ann Bild of Cottage Grove, and a passenger in the Audi, 32-year-old Tanya Mott of Lakeville, both suffered fatal injuries.
According to Cottage Grove Public Safety, multiple callers reportedly saw one of the vehicles involved "traveling the wrong way," on Highway 61 from 80th Street.
The two injured patients in the crash were transported to Regions Hospital.
Minnesota State Patrol will be doing an investigation into the crash, according to authorities.
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