ZIMMERMAN -- A Bovey woman is in the hospital after she fell asleep at the wheel Monday evening.

The Minnesota State Patrol says 75-year-old Julie Manley-Hartje was heading south on Highway 169 at Fremont Avenue in Zimmerman around 6:00 p.m. when she fell asleep. She then went into the ditch and struck a road approach.

Manley-Hartje was taken to Princeton Hospital, with non-life threatening injuries.

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