Snowmobile hits logging truck

Posted: 01.25.2013 at 7:20 AM

WAKEFIELD -- A snowmobiler is hospitalized after running into a logging truck in Gogebic County Thursday.

It happened in the afternoon on M-28 near Hopkins Road just east of Wakefield.

Michigan State Police say a snowmobile driven by 57-year-old Jeff Schuelke of Wisconsin was crossing M-28 and ran into the wheels of a westbound logging truck.

Schuelke was taken to Aspirus Grandview Hospital. No word yet on his condition. He was cited for failure to yield

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