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Speed cited in fatal Stout students' snowmobile crash
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SUPERIOR, Wis. - Investigators' preliminary report cites speed as a factor in a snowmobile crash that killed two University of Wisconsin-Stout students.
Twenty-year-old Martin Platek of Inver Grove Heights, Minn. and 21-year-old Caitlin Higgins of Little Canada, Minn. died New Year's Day when their snowmobile crashed on Lyman Lake, south of Superior.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources spokesman Jim Bishop says Platek was apparently driving the snowmobile that hit a lake bank, then struck an aluminum dock on land.
Platek was wearing a helmet. Higgins was not. It's believed the two were headed back to a cabin at a high rate of speed.
Toxicology tests are pending.
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Information from: Leader-Telegram, http://www.leadertelegram.com/
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