SPRING VALLEY, Minn. – A Grand Meadow driver ran off the road and hit a power pole. Nikki Rae Heitland, 36, suffered non-life threatening injuries, a Fillmore County deputy said. Heitland was taken 30 miles to a Rochester hospital. The accident was about 10:20 p.m. on Highway 16 near the Mower-Fillmore county line. Heitland was heading north in a 2013 Chevrolet Impala. The deputy made these notes in writing up the report: Dry pavement, no seat belt, alcohol involved.
