ELK RIVER (WJON News) -- Five people were hurt in a two-vehicle crash on Highway 169 in Elk River.

The Minnesota State Patrol says the incident happened at about 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

A Dodge Caravan was traveling north on the highway and a passenger car was traveling south when the two vehicles collided.

Sixty-one-year-old Nereyda Zaleta of Minneapolis was taken to Mercy Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

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The driver of the van, 40-year-old Johara Hassan of Ramsey, and her three passengers, a 16-year-old girl from Zimmerman, an eight-year-old girl from Zimmerman, and a nine-year-old boy from Zimmerman, were all taken to Mercy Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

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