Two Texas women injured in one-vehicle accident on Interstate 35 in Freeborn County Saturday night

Two people were injured in a one-vehicle accident on Interstate 35 in Freeborn County Saturday evening. 

The Minnesota State Patrol reported that a 2005 Nissan Murano being driven by 53-year old Delia Vigil Cuevas of Mission, Texas was traveling northbound on Interstate 35 at approximately 6:41 p.m. Saturday evening when her vehicle slid off the snow and ice-covered road and struck the right guardrail at milepost 9 in Albert Lea Township.

Cuevas and a passenger in her vehicle, 51-year old Altagarcia Cisneros of Pharr, Texas both sustained non-life threatening injuries in the accident, and they were both transported to Mayo Clinic Health Systems in Albert Lea for treatment.  The State Patrol indicated that both parties involved in the accident were wearing their seatbelts, and Mayo Ambulance assisted the State Patrol at the accident scene Saturday evening.