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Near Misses
Accidents that could have resulted in a fatality, but did not. |
05/25/2008
A New Jersey woman who was driving an ATV Sunday from the scene of a friend’s crash, injured herself in a mountainous area south of Trevorton known as the “Sand Tracks.” State police say the 28 year-old victim from Annandale, NJ, was driving an ATV on a dirt trail in the stripping areas owned by Reading Anthracite off Route 2044, when the vehicle’s tire struck a large rock. She lost control and was thrown from the ATV and injured her knee. Cordes, who was wearing a helmet, was transported by private vehicle to the hospital, where she was treated and released.
She had been riding with a male friend, 48, of Asbury, N.J., who was injured in an ATV crash at the “Sand Tracks” who had to be flown by Life Flight to the hospital, where he remained in critical condition Monday. The victim was on a steep downhill dirt trail when he lost control of his ATV and was thrown from the vehicle, according to State police.
The woman was on her way back to a campsite to rendezvous with her friends after the man’s accident in order to gather and travel to the hospital together. Their crashes occurred about 30 minutes apart, police said, between 3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. A Trevorton Fire official said the male victim’s accident occurred a mere 100 yards from where a 57 year-old Halifax woman was fatally injured in an ATV accident Saturday.
Source: The News-Item in Shamokin, PA
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