LOGAN — A 12-year-old boy was injured Sunday in a snowmobile accident east of Hyrum.
According to emergency radio traffic, search and rescue teams from Cache, Rich, and Weber counties were all paged to the accident, eight miles east of Hardware Ranch around 12:30 p.m.
The boy was reportedly snowmobiling with his family when the snowmobile he was riding on crashed into a tree.
A family member told a 911 dispatch operator, the 12-year-old was conscious and breathing but very pale.
Cache County Sheriff’s Lt. Doyle Peck said the boy was located and lifted off the mountain by a helicopter with a hoist.
He was then placed in a Life Flight helicopter and transported to a hospital shortly after 5 p.m.
Lt. Peck reported the boy was in stable condition with some injuries to his chest from hitting the tree.
will@cvradio.com
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