NEW INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, MN (KDAL) – A 56 year old Cloquet man was hospitalized in Duluth with a serious head injury following a UTV crash Sunday afternoon.
The victim was apparently making a U-turn when the vehicle overturned and landed on him.
According to the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Department, the crash occurred about one and a half miles east of the Independence Rest area on Highway 53 and the Swan Lake Road.
The victim was not wearing a helmet and the accident remains under investigation.
