Two injured in Walker motorcycle crash

By: News Director Larissa Donovan

WALKER– A Walker woman and a Nevis man were seriously injured in a motorcycle crash in Walker early Saturday morning.

According to the state patrol, the Honda Motorcycle left the roadway near Arola Road and 73rd Street Northwest and struck a power pole just before 1 a.m. on Saturday.

Twenty-eight-year-old April Grossman and 30-year-old Derek Hogan were taken via air ambulance to North Memorial Hospital in the Twin Cities for life threatening injuries.

Neither appeared to have been wearing helmets and it is not yet known if alcohol was a factor in the crash.


Larissa Donovan was the News Director for the stations of Paul Bunyan Broadcasting and has been, almost without interruption, since Election Day 2016, through July 2023. She covered all the beats in north-central Minnesota, such as local government, crime, education, environment and social issues. She studied communications at Bemidji State University. You can follow along with Larissa's live tweets of meetings and events on Twitter!


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