MILAN — A 39-year-old Massachusetts woman was killed Friday when she lost control of her snowmobile and crashed into a tree while riding on Primary Trail 109 in Milan.
It was the second fatal snowmobile crash in less than a month in the Milan-Berlin area and part of a rash of recent crashes that have been attributed to driver inexperience.
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