WEST CONCORD, Minn. – A West Concordd woman was injured seriously when she tried to avoid a snowplow stopped on the right-of-way and ended up in a ditch. Hannah Mickelson, 24, was airlifted 23 miles to a Rochester hospital with a back fracture, pelvis fractures, and a broken arm. The crash was about 7 a.m. on Dodge County Road 7 near the junction to Kasson. Deputies described what happened this way:
> Mckelson was driving to her job as a school teacher in Kasson.
> A snowplow had stopped to assist the driver of a milk tanker truck that already was in the ditch.
> Mickelson swerved to avoid he plow, but one corner of the plow went into her passenger door.
> She spun into the ditch.
The road was icy, deputies said. Mickelson’s injuries were described as “very serious but not life-threatening.”