A 17-year-old Port Austin boy requires out of county medical treatment following a Thursday snowmobile accident that sent him and the vehicle airborne.
According to Huron County Sheriff Kelly Hanson, it was shortly before 4:00 p.m. on February 2 when the boy was riding around his family’s Hume Township property when he drove over a “plowed snow pile at a high rate of speed,” which ejected and sent him flying, and then falling.
The teenager, who was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, sustained a head injury when he landed head first on frozen ground, with the boy taken first to McLaren Thumb Region and then out-of-area for further treatment.
Assisting the Huron County Sheriff’s Office at the scene were the Port Austin police and fire department, and Central Huron Ambulance.
