Vernon Girl Dies After Snowmobile Crash
Girl, Driver Were Driving Across Lower Phantom Lake
Updated: 1:17 pm CST December 28, 2009
TOWN OF MUKWONAGO, Wis. -- A Wisconsin teen who ended up in a coma after being thrown from a speeding snowmobile has died.Chelsey Lobenhober,17, of Vernon, was riding on the back of a snowmobile Wednesday when the driver lost control.She was in a coma for three days. Town of Mukwonago police said that she died on Saturday.Neither she nor the driver was wearing a helmet.Authorities said the pair were driving across the ice of Lower Phantom Lake when the driver swerved to avoid a car on the lake. Police said they've received conflicting accounts of whether the car was parked or moving.Police Chief Grant Turner said alcohol wasn't a factor. The driver hasn't been charged with a crime, but Turner has said that could change if drug tests are positive.
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