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Friday, January 17, 2014Authorities say a man has died following a weekend snowmobile crash in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula.
31-year-old Jeffery D. Wright died Saturday after the crash in Wexford County's Clam Lake Township. Investigators say he lost control, and went off a trail and down an embankment before hitting trees.
The crash happened about 35 miles southeast of Traverse City. Wright is identified as being from Vicksburg, southeast of Kalamazoo.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014Area:
Portland-Auburn, MEA Maine man said he crawled 2 1/2 miles in below-freezing temperatures to get help after breaking his leg in a snowmobiling accident.
Nicholas Brown said it took him more than six hours to crawl down a hill in the town of Mexico last week to get to a friend’s house.
The 57-year-old Brown stated that he had gone to his snowmobiling club’s house last Thursday to leave membership applications and maps.
He lost control going around a corner on some ice on his way home at about 9 p.m.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNOne of two snowmobiles riding together crashed into an unoccupied ice fishing trailer on a western Wisconsin lake late at night, killing a 20-year-old woman riding behind the drunken operator on the trailing machine, authorities said Thursday.
The crash occurred about 10 p.m. Wednesday on Bone Lake, southeast of Luck, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman suffered “severe head injuries” despite wearing a helmet, the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
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Friday, January 10, 2014Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNA 51-year-old man from Buffalo, Minn., was killed in a snowmobile crash over the weekend.
According to the Wright County Sheriff’s Office, Craig Peitz was on a trail parallel to Endicott Avenue Northwest in Silver Creek Township around 3 p.m. Saturday. Officials say Peitz was going southbound on the trail when he came over a hill, hit a snow crest and was thrown from the snowmobile.
Peitz was airlifted to North Memorial Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
The incident is still under investigation by the Wright County Sheriff’s Office.
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Sunday, January 5, 2014Authorities say weather likely is to blame for a fatal snowmobile crash in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula.
50-year-old Nick Allen Potter was found pinned this week under a snowmobile in a parking lot at Echo Township Hall, located in Antrim County about 30 miles northeast of Traverse City. Cause of death was listed as traumatic asphyxia.
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Friday, January 3, 2014Area:
Indianapolis, INA man was airlifted to the hospital with serious internal injuries after a snowmobile crash in Kosciusko County.
According to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, 31-year-old Keith Hochstetler, of Milford, was driving a snowmobile in the area of 600 N and 150 W when he hit a snowbank and was thrown off the vehicle. Investigators said Hochstetler was going around 50 mph at the time of the crash.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013Area:
Madison, WIA Michigan man was killed Friday in a snowmobile accident in Columbia County, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
The accident was reported about 1 p.m. near Cambria, and speed and snow conditions may have been factors in the accident, according to the DNR.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013Area:
Salt Lake City, UTThe Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that a 10-year-old boy died Friday in a snowmobile crash just east of Woodland in Wasatch County, near Highway 35.
Officials say the 10-year-old was driving the snowmobile with his father and lost control of snowmobile causing it to roll.
The boy suffered fatal injuries while the father sustained only minor injuries. Police say both of them were wearing helmets.
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Friday, December 20, 2013Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNA 63-year-old man from Shafer, Minn., died in a snowmobile accident on Saturday, according to the Chisago County Sheriff’s Office.
Dennis Holt was killed as he moved a snowmobile on private property about 11:20 a.m. near Shafer, in Franconia Township. The snowmobile accelerated rapidly, striking a car-hauling trailer parked nearby, the Sheriff’s Office said.
Holt was not familiar with the snowmobile, which was different from most because a lefthanded throttle had been installed. That appears to have contributed to the accident, the Sheriff’s Office said.
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Saturday, December 14, 2013Area:
Milwaukee, WIA 24-year-old Lake Mills woman was killed Sunday when her snowmobile hit a patch of open water and slid into trees along a riverbank, the Dodge County Sheriff's Office said.
The woman was riding second in a line of six snowmobiles heading south on the frozen river next to N3000 County BB at 4:21 p.m. Sunday. A 26-year-old Sun Prairie man was driving behind her, saw the crash and the open water and jumped off his snowmobile, which also crashed into trees, a news release stated.