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Woman dies in snowmobile crash
Posted: 03.08.2010 at 6:07 AM
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It happeened at a snowmobile club.

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PORTAGE TOWNSHIP -- Two snowmobiles collided, and one person died Saturday night.
    
It happened in Houghton County at the Range Snowmobile Club in Portage Township.

According to the Houghton County Sheriff's Department, a 26-year-old Houghton man was snowmobiling across a clearing near the club when he slammed into another sled.
    
Twenty-one-year-old Amanda Briggs of Lake Linden was driving that snowmobile.  She was pronounced dead at the scene.
    
The Houghton man was taken to the hospital for his injuries, and the incident remains under investigation.

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