6-Year-Old MN Girl Run Over By Brush Mower

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MN — A 6-year-old Cook, Minnesota girl was hospitalized after she was run over by a pull-behind brush mower.

St. Louis County Sheriff's deputies responded to the incident on Friday at about 1:50 p.m.

The 6-year-old was a passenger on an ATV, sitting behind an adult driver, according to investigators. The driver was mowing trails with an attached pull-behind brush mower, authorities said.

As they were mowing, the 6-year-old fell off of the ATV and was run over by the brush mower. She was taken by ambulance to Cook Hospital and then helicoptered to Children's Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis with serious injuries.

Patch has reached out to the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office for an update.