FARGO - Freezing drizzle made area roads icy early Friday, sending cars into the ditch and prompting a Highway Patrol warning to slow down.

Sgt. Jim Prochniak said the drizzle combined with low temperatures to make bridge decks and other areas slippery.

"People aren't anticipating that," he said. "We have some sliding, we have some rollovers."

Prochniak said he knew of no life-threatening injuries. He said crews were out sanding and salting the roads before 9 a.m.

"But I think until the temperature rises a few degrees, we'd better slow it down," he said.

More than a half-dozen drivers went in the ditch along Interstate 94 between Barnesville and Rothsay, Minn., Trooper Andy Schmidt said. He urged drivers and passengers to buckle up.

"We've run into a number of people today that have had their mishap and gone in the ditch and have been ejected," Schmidt said. "What should have been relatively minor now has injuries to it because somebody wasn't wearing their seat belt."