(KNZA)--A Wathena woman escaped serious injury Saturday afternoon when her SUV collided with a fire truck on a northwest Missouri road that was responding to a grass fire.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says it happened in Dekalb County on South East Platte Road about four miles east of Stewartsville shortly before 4:30.

The Patrol says 24-year-old Cheyenne Ward was westbound and the fire truck was eastbound with its emergency equipment activated when both vehicles crossed the center line and collided head-on.

The Patrol says heavy smoke from the grass fire obstructed the vision of both drivers. 

Ward was taken by private vehicle with what the Patrol described as minor injuries to Cameron Regional Medical Center.  The fire truck driver was not hurt.