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A Spokane man was injured in a snowmobile accident in the Coeur d’Alene National Forest on Saturday morning. Brian Davisson, 45, was ejected from his snowmobile and hit a snow drift near the Skitwish warming hut, according to a news release from Kootenai County Sheriff’s Dept. Davisson was then struck by another snowmobile, Higgins said. Emergency workers were summoned to the scene about 11:30 a.m. Davisson was treated at the warming hut and taken via helicopter to Kootenai Health in Coeur d’Alene with non-life-threatening injuries, Higgins said.