SILVER CREEK TOWNSHIP, (AP) - A snowmobiler has died in Wright County after crashing into a snow crest.

Sheriff's officials say 51-year-old Craig Peitz, of Buffalo, vaulted on a hill, slammed into the snow crest and was thrown from the machine Saturday.

The snowmobiler was taken to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale where he died.

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