Woman hospitalized after hard landing on paraglider


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DRAPER — A 60-year-old woman was recovering Monday from a paragliding accident near Point of the Mountain.

The woman, an experienced paraglider, "was doing a corkscrew left turn" about 10 a.m. Monday and wasn't able to pull out of it before hitting the ground, said Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. Spencer Cannon.

At first, witnesses thought it was a serious crash, but Cannon said it turned out to be more of a hard landing.

"What looked like a very serious crash turned out to be not as serious as initially thought," he said.

The woman, who initially insisted that she was fine, was taken by ambulance to a local hospital to be checked out for reported lower back pain, Cannon said.

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