A woman died after a snowmobile crash near Hurley over the weekend.
The Iron County Sheriff’s Office says a call came in at 1:52 a.m. Sunday morning that a snowmobile had gone off the trail and the rider was unresponsive. It happened on Trail 17 just outside of Hurley.
Life saving measures were begun when emergency responders got to the scene several hundred yards south of Silver Street in Hurley.
The patient was brought to an ambulance using a rescue sled, and then taken to a hospital in Ironwood. The woman was later pronounced dead at age 47.
The crash investigation is underway.
