IRONDALE TOWNSHIP — A Brainerd woman and Crosby man were injured in a crash Thursday, Jan. 27, on Highway 210 near Riverton.
The Minnesota State Patrol reported 60-year-old Darold Peter Wodarz of Crosby was eastbound on Highway 210 in his 2004 Hyundai Elantra at 5 p.m. Thursday when he attempted to make a left turn in front of another vehicle on Crow Wing County Highway 59. While turning, Wodarz’s vehicle hit the westbound 2017 Jeep Wrangler driven by 47-year-old Alacia Renee Ehlenfeldt of Brainerd. The two vehicles collided head on.
Ehlenfeldt was airlifted to St. Cloud Hospital for life-threatening injuries. Wodarz suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
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