Head-On Sends One Person to Hospital

One person was taken to hospital following a head-on collision on Highway 11 between International Falls and Rainer.

The accident happened just before 11:00 p.m. last night near the Falls city boundary.

The Koochiching Country Sheriff's department says members of the International Falls Fire Department had to use the jaw-of-life to extricate a female driver from one of the vehicles.

She was taken to Rainy Lake Medical Centre for treatment. Her condition is not immediately known.

The driver of the other vehicle escape serious injury.