UTICA, Minn. – About dawn someone reported a vehicle that had run off County Road 18 into a farm field east of Utica during the night. The driver apparently had climbed out into the mud and walked away and wasn’t to be found. As a tow truck pulled the vehicle out, deputies began trying to contact the registered owner. This was about 6:30 a.m. The accident was at the Swensingson Drive crossroads south of the Canadian Pacific tracks off U.S. Highway 14.
