PIKE TWP- Emily M. Schnacky, a 22-year-old from Babbitt, was critically injured on Feb. 13 when her Chevy Cobalt left the roadway and rolled into the ditch along County Rd. 21 in Pike. Schnacky was traveling eastbound at around 2:45 p.m. when the accident occurred. She was transported by North Memorial Air Care to Essentia Health-St. Mary’s in Duluth in critical condition.
The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Virginia Fire and Ambulance, Pike-Sandy-Britt First Responders, Breitung Police Department and the Minnesota State Patrol assisted at the scene.

Orr fatality accident
ORR- A 30-year-old man died in a head-on collision north of Orr on Tuesday when the car he was driving crossed over into the path of a tractor trailer.
According to the Minnesota State Patrol, Joshua Clyde Roudebush, of Clearbrook, was southbound in a 2010 Chevy Cobalt on Hwy. 53 approaching Lambert Rd. near Ash Lake at about 2:30 p.m. His car crossed the centerline into the northbound lane, colliding head-on with a 1989 Peterbilt tractor trailer driven by Geoffrey Norman Springer, 37, of Isle. Roudebush died at the scene, while Springer was not injured. The crash report said it was undetermined whether Roudebush was wearing a seatbelt or if he was impaired by alcohol. Springer was wearing a seat belt and alcohol was not a contributing factor.
The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Orr Fire/EMS, Cook Fire/ EMS, Kabetogama Fire, and Voyageurs National Park Rangers responded to the scene.