SPRING VALLEY, Minn. — A semi-truck rig and a minivan collided at the major junction between Spring Valley and Grand Meadow. Injured were two Spring Valley women in a 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan:
> Lola Anita Anderson, 57, the driver.
> Sharon Denise Littlejohn, 58.
They were taken 24 miles to a Rochester hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The truck driver, Andrew Henry Irmiter, 42, of Armstrong, Iowa, was unhurt. The collision was about 12 p.m. The minivan was southbound from Rochester on U.S. Highway 63. The truck, a 2022 Peterbilt, was westbound toward Grand Meadow on State Highway 16.