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Residents of Redwood Falls and Gibbon were injured when the vehicle they were riding in crashed in Renville County Thursday.

According to the Minnesota State Patrol, at about 8:40 p.m. on Feb. 23, Todd Allen Kraus, age 47, of Redwood Falls, was driving a 2009 Ford F-150 westbound on Highway 19. Near the turnoff onto Highway 71, the vehicle left the road and landed in the ditch.

Kraus was transported to CentraCare – Redwood with non-life threatening injuries. His passenger, Cory Marianna Bluhm, age 49, of Gibbon, was transported to CentraCare – St. Cloud, with non-life threatening injuries.

Assisting at the scene were the Morton Fire Department and medical crew, CentraCare – Redwood, the Renville County Sheriff’s Office, and the Lower Sioux Police Department.