Alaska State Troopers say a man is headed to the hospital after he was injured in an all-terrain vehicle rollover near Willow Tuesday afternoon.
According to AST spokesperson Megan Peters, troopers were informed at about 2:45 p.m. Tuesday that the man, who appeared to be in his fifties, had been spotted on Silver Salmon Drive by someone recreating in the area. It wasn't immediately clear how long the man had been at the scene of the older-model Honda ATV's crash before he was found, or how badly he was injured.
"(It was) on a dirt road -- rocks and potholes but a maintained roadway," Peters wrote in an email on the crash. "Looks like he lost control when he went close to the ditch."
As of 3:30 p.m., medics were at the scene and preparations were being made to take the man to a hospital, possibly in Anchorage. It wasn't immediately clear whether he would be transported by ambulance or helicopter.
"It's always tricky between the Valley and Anchorage," Peters said. "Sometimes you have to clear out landing zones."
Peters says no positive identification has been made on the man, but his injuries were sufficiently severe that attempts are being made to notify his next of kin.
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