Traverse City — Northwestern Michigan snowmobile trails are sloppy, muddy and falling apart, their disrepair a signal of the end to a season marked by limited snowfall and six fatalities.
That’s one less regional snowmobile death than last year and comprises about a quarter of the state’s 23 recorded snowmobile deaths [...]
22 people died in crashes in Michigan in winter 2008-09
LAKE ANN — A snowmobiler in Benzie County apparently was driving too fast when she missed a curve and struck a tree, becoming the county’s first snowmobile death this season.
Candace Grace McDonald, 29, of the Midland County village of Sanford, died early Sunday after the Saturday [...]