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A Sterling Heights man was injured as a result of a single–vehicle snowmobile crash this afternoon.
Seventy–eight–year old Michael Sampson was northbound on the DNR snowmobile trail in Marquette Township when he pushed the throttle instead of the brake while negotiating a curve.
According to a Marquette County Sheriff’s Office release, Sampson veered away from the trail and was ejected from his snowmobile.
Responders transported him off the trail to u.p. health systems marquette with a pelvic injury.
Marquette Township Fire and EMS and U.P. Health Systems EMS assisted at the scene.
Michael Neiger (l) presenting a check to Sheriff Greg Zyburt
Credit Marquette County Sheriff s Office
The donation came from Michael Neiger, president of Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue.
The drone will help Marquette County Search and Rescue during fire, flooding, search and rescue, and recovery. It will be named ART in honor of Michael’s father Art Neiger, a 40-year veteran of Marquette’s Coast Guard Auxiliary. Art was a Boy Scout leader and a professor and advisor at Northern Michigan University. He also helped to set up NMU’s police academy. ART also happens to be an acronym for Aerial Response Team.
January 21, 2021
The Fenton resident killed in a weekend crash in the Upper Peninsula has been identified.
The crash involved three vehicles on US-41 near mile marker 102 in Michigamme Township at around 6pm last Saturday. Troopers from the Michigan State Police Negaunee Post and Deputies from the Marquette County Sheriffâs Office responded.
Investigation determined that a red 2005 Pontiac Aztek driven by 20-year-old Charlotte Jenkins of Fenton and a 19-year-old passenger, a Brighton woman, were westbound on US-41 when Jenkins lost control of the vehicle and collided with two eastbound vehicles. Jenkins, who went by the name Cameron, suffered fatal injuries as a result of the crash while the Brighton woman was hospitalized for what were described as serious injuries.
MICHIGAMME A 20-year-old woman died from injuries suffered in a Saturday accident in Michigamme Township.
Michigan State Police reported that at about 6 p.m. Saturday, troopers from the MSP Negaunee Post and deputies from the Marquette County Sheriff’s Office responded to a multi-vehicle traffic accident on U.S. 41 near marker 102 in Michigamme Township.
The investigation determined that a red 2005 Pontiac Aztek driven by a 20-year-old female from downstate Fenton and her 19-year-old female passenger from downstate Brighton were westbound on U.S. 41 when the driver lost control of her vehicle and collided with two eastbound vehicles.
The driver of the Aztek, confirmed by Michigan Tech University as an MTU student, suffered fatal injuries. The passenger was transported to UP Health System-Marquette for treatment of serious injuries. Two other injured motorists were transported to UPHS-Bell for treatment of their injuries.
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