ATV Rollover in Melrose Township Injures Two Teens

MELROSE TOWNSHIP (WJON News) -- Two teenagers were hurt in an ATV crash near Melrose on Saturday.

The Stearns County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to an ATV rollover just before Noon. The caller reported a crash with injuries in the 34000 block of Westfield Road in Melrose Township.

The sheriff's office says the driver of the machine, 17-year-old Faith Tschida of Sartell, was westbound on Westfield Road when she lost control on a curve and rolled end-over-end in the ditch.

Tschida was partially trapped under the ATV and had to be extricated by the Melrose Fire Department. Her passenger, 16-year-old Makenzy Karnes of Burtrum, was also hurt.

Life Link Air Ambulance airlifted Tschida to Children's Hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Karnes was taken by ground ambulance to Melrose Hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

The sheriff's office says the two were not wearing their factory-installed seatbelts in the ATV, and neither was wearing a helmet.

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