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Published December 28, 2012, 09:54 AM

10-year-old dies in Minnesota sledding accident

DASSEL, Minn. – A 10-year old girl from North Carolina died Thursday after a sledding accident at her grandparents’ home in rural Dassel.

DASSEL, Minn. – A 10-year old girl from North Carolina died Thursday after a sledding accident at her grandparents’ home in rural Dassel.

According to the Meeker County Sheriff’s office, emergency crews were called to the Craig and Barbara Kay residence in Dassel Township around 3:30 p.m. Thursday in response to a backyard sledding accident involving the couple’s granddaughter, who was visiting from Fayetteville, N.C.

The girl had been sledding down a hill with other children in the backyard when her sled hit a raised stump and she was thrown from the sled,Meeker County Sheriff Jeff Norlin said.

Gold Cross Ambulance transported the girl to Meeker Memorial Hospital, where she later died from her injuries.

The Meeker County Sheriff's Office is continuing to investigate this death.

The children were under adult supervision and this appears to be a tragic accident, Norlin said.

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