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Polaris and snowmachine rider who hit sled canine group charged with reckless driving

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a sled dog team on a snowy road
A musher practices on the Denali Highway in 2019. (Joey Mendolia)

A cost has been filed in a case wherein a snowmachine hit a canine group on the Denali Highway.

According to an Alaska State Trooper dispatch, 48-year-old Erik Johnson of Minnesota and Polaris Inc. have been charged with reckless driving for a Dec. 11 crash that killed three sled dogs and severely injured one other. Johnson was testing a machine for Polaris on the snow-covered Denali Highway east of Cantwell when he hit a canine group being pushed by Mike Parker for Iditarod veteran Jim Lanier.

It was certainly one of two accidents in a month wherein snowmachines hit canine groups on the Denali Highway. On Nov. 17, a group being pushed by a handler for five-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey was hit, killing 2 dogs and injuring a number of others. The operator of the machine, 28-year-old Austin Gibbs of Healy, was cited for negligent driving.


Dan Bross is a reporter at KUAC in Fairbanks.



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