LAKE CRYSTAL — Two women from the Lake Crystal area suffered non-life-threatening injuries when the vehicles they were driving crashed head-on Thursday morning on Blue Earth County Road 9 on the southeast edge of Lake Crystal.
Blue Earth County deputies responded around 7:45 a.m. to reports of a crash between a red Honda and a gray Chevrolet Suburban near the highway’s intersection with 515th Avenue.
German Anibal Ortega, 59, of Lake Crystal, had been driving a Honda Pilot westbound on Blue Earth County Road 9 and Deisy De Leon Esqueda, 44, of rural Lake Crystal, was driving an eastbound Chevrolet Suburban when the vehicles crashed.
Ortega was transported from the scene by ground ambulance and De Leon Esqueda was transported from the scene by air ambulance, deputies said.
Witnesses reported seeing the Honda Pilot cross the centerline of the roadway prior to the crash, deputies said.
The incident remains under investigation.