WINONA, Minn. – A car barreled into a tree at Fourth and Market streets on the Near East Side. The tree survived. The car not so much. The driver wasn’t badly hurt but was taken to the hospital. How did this happen at 4:40 p.m. on dry streets? The driver, a 16-year-old girl, told police that items on her dashboard had fallen off and she reached to grab them. When she looked up she realized she had run a stop sign and swerved to avoid an oncoming car and overcorrected.
