TOWER, Minn. – A Winona driver lost control on ice and spun head-on into a snowplow in northern Minnesota on the Iron Range. Joann Collins Smerage, 64, was taken 30 miles southwest to the Virginia hospital. Her injuries were non-life threatening, police said. She was buckled up, police said. The accident was about 3:30 p.m. on State Highway 169 just west of Tower. The plow driver, Douglas Joel Briski, 59, was unhurt. Smerage was driving a 2020 Jeep Cherokee.
