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Tower man airlifted following car crash

Marshall Helmberger
Posted 1/18/17

VERMILION LAKE TWP— A Tower man suffered life-threatening injuries in a two-car crash near the Y Store this past Sunday. Justin Dean Anderson, age 52, was apparently attempting to cross Hwy. 169, …

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Tower man airlifted following car crash

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VERMILION LAKE TWP— A Tower man suffered life-threatening injuries in a two-car crash near the Y Store this past Sunday. Justin Dean Anderson, age 52, was apparently attempting to cross Hwy. 169, from the Y Store to County Road 77, just ahead of a northbound pickup, but didn’t make it.

The one-ton pickup, driven by Rolando Noyes, of Tower, hit the driver’s side of Anderson’s 1980 Malibu, leaving Anderson badly injured. He was non-responsive when emergency personnel arrived and was later airlifted to St. Luke’s in Duluth by a Lifeflight helicopter that landed in the Y Store parking lot. Anderson was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash. His current condition was not available as of presstime.

Noyes, who was wearing a seat belt, was uninjured in the crash. The roads were icy at the time of the collision.

Responding to the scene were the Tower and Virginia ambulance services, the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, the Vermilion Lake Fire Department and First Responders, and the Tower Fire Department.