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Saturday, February 21, 2015Area:
Salt Lake City, UTA 73-year-old Smithfield man was killed in a snowmobile crash in the Gibson Lakes area on Saturday afternoon. Dennis R. Thompson had climbed a steep hill on his snowmobile. It seems the snowmobile went off a steep drop-off, crashed into trees and came to rest approximately 60 feet below the ridge.
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Friday, February 21, 2014Area:
Salt Lake City, UTAuthorities in southeast Idaho are investigating a fatal snowmobile accident over the weekend that claimed the life of a 21-year-old Utah woman who was an up-and-coming racer on the regional snowmobiling circuit.
The Franklin County Sheriff said Monday that Raysha Nielsen of Logan was a passenger on a snowmobile that struck a tree Saturday afternoon in the Franklin Basin area east of Franklin. No name or other information has been released in regard to the driver of the snowmobile.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports Nielsen was the daughter of Rich Gladfelder, owner of Logan's Renegade Sports.
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Saturday, November 16, 2013Area:
Salt Lake City, UTA 26-year-old Utah man has been killed in a single-vehicle rollover in Idaho.
The Idaho State Patrol says Chet Atkinson of Weston died in the crash on Highway 36 near Preston about 6:40 p.m. Sunday.
Troopers say he was headed east in a Dodge pickup truck when he drifted off the south side of the highway near mile marker 132.
Investigators say he apparently over-corrected before he crashed through a guard rail and rolled down an embankment.
Atkinson was not wearing a seat belt. He was ejected from the truck and died at the scene. The accident remains under investigation.