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Published September 13, 2012, 01:11 PM

Superior biker hospitalized after accident

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-- A motorcyclist is hospitalized in serious condition after he reportedly drove past barricades on a flooded-out road in Superior, and crashed in a 12-foot-wide gully.

SUPERIOR - A motorcyclist is hospitalized in serious condition after he reportedly drove past barricades on a flooded-out road in Superior, and crashed in a 12-foot-wide gully.

It happened just before nine last night. Superior Police Chief Charles LaGesse said the biker was wearing a helmet – and there was no indication that suicide was involved. The chief said the biker was found unresponsive in shallow water in a gully that was created during the heavy floods in mid-June.

The man was revived by EMT’s and a police officer, and then taken to a hospital in nearby Duluth Minnesota.

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