A helicopter was dispatched in northeast Iowa to fly a man injured in a kayaking accident to the hospital.
A Platteville, Wisconsin, man was seriously injured while kayaking on the Turkey River in Fayette County over the weekend. According to the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department, 27-year-old Alvin Colson was kayaking Saturday afternoon with his family when he became lodged against a tree and flipped over, hitting his head on rocks. Authorities say Colson was air-lifted from the scene.
The accident happened near Elgin.
(Reporting by Darin Swenson, KDEC, Decorah)