Car rear-ends tractor, plow; driver injured
A Litchfield man was injured Wednesday evening when his vehicle rear-ended a farm tractor pulling a chisel plow on Highway 7 near Cable Avenue.
The Minnesota State Patrol said the accident was reported at 9:33 p.m.
Nathan Andrew Duehl-meier, 38, of Litchfield, was driving a 2000 Buick LeSabre eastbound and hit the tractor and chisel plow, which also were eastbound.
Duehlmeier was taken by ambulance to Ridgeview Hospital in Waconia for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Jordan Joseph Fasching, 21, of Winsted, driver of a 2002 John Deere tractor, was not injured.
Responding to the accident were the state patrol, Lester Prairie police, Lester Prairie Fire Department and Ridgeview Ambulance.