PALISADE WOMAN DIES IN CRASH

57-year old Janell Hatfield died just after 5:30pm yesterday afternoon when she swerved to avoid hitting a deer on Highway 169, 12 miles north of Aitkin. The deer ran into her side of the car and when she tried to get back into the northbound lane, she overcorrected, and collided with a Dodge pickup in the southbound lane. Two men from McGregor were in the pickup and sustained non-life threatening injuries. Hatfield died at the scene of the crash.