Cle Elum man dies after snowmobile strikes elk
Published 9:42 pm Monday, November 29, 2010
CLE ELUM — Kittitas County sheriff’s deputies say a man was killed when his snowmobile hit an elk in Cle Elum.
KNDU-TV reports that Joseph Heitman, 25, of Cle Elum, died in the Saturday evening accident in Elk Meadows Park. Deputies say a preliminary investigation indicates the snowmobile was traveling at a high rate of speed and rolled after it struck the elk.
A passenger on the snowmobile was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with non-life threatening injuries.
