Snowmobiler injured in 50-foot fall
Updated: 3/20/2010 9:36 pm | Published: 3/20/2010 9:32 pm
WASATCH COUNTY (ABC 4 News) - A 45-year-old man is recovering at the University of Utah Hospital after a snowmobile accident in Wasatch County Saturday afternoon.
Search and rescue crews found the man in the Soapstone area of Wasatch county in a 50-foot sink hole.
Sheriff's deputies say the man was snowmobiling with a friend when he fell in the whole, which might be an abandoned mine shaft.
His friend called 911, and crews reached the man in less than an hour.
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