HOUSTON, Minn. – Dour persons were injured when their minivan struck a guardrail and overturned into the ditch just across the Root River from Houston. Taken 22 miles to a LaCrosse hospital with non-life threatening injuries were:

> Candace Kay Lepley, 39, of Elko New Market, who was driving the 1998 Plymouth Grand Voyager.

> Lorraine Kay Hanson, 72, of Northfield.

> Jennifer Lorraine Hanson, 43, of Northfield.

> Andrea Sue Hanson, 42, of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

Houston County deputies said the minivan was southbound on State Highway 76 into Houston and approaching County Road 9. This was about 8:20 a.m.