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Rider killed in Wisconsin snowmobile crash

HURLEY, WI--   A woman has died in a snowmobile accident in Iron County, Wisconsin. 

Sunday just before 2 a.m. Emergency Dispatch received a call that a snowmobile had gone off Trail 17 outside of Hurley and the driver was unresponsive.

Hurley Police officers and Iron County Sheriff’s deputies responded and began lifesaving measures. Hurley Snowmobile Rescue took the 47-year-old woman to Aspirus Grand View Hospital in Ironwood, where she was later pronounced dead.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.