Anchorage , AK : Iditarod musher injured by a sport utility vehicle that crashed into her team on a training run on Tuesday, November 27th 2014

An Iditarod musher injured by a sport utility vehicle that crashed into her team on a training run quickly turned her thoughts to the dogs that had scattered. From a ditch where she lay with three broken vertebrae, Karin Hendrickson reached for her cellphone, she told the Alaska Dispatch News (http://bit.ly/1y8bq7V). "I just started trying to get ahold of local mushers to say, 'My dogs are loose and they're hurt and someone needs to come and get them because I can't,' " she said Thursday from her hospital bed at Providence Alaska Medical Center. Hendrickson, 44, is a four-time finisher in the 1,000-mile Iditarod. Besides the broken back, she suffered badly bruised legs. Her dogs fared better. Local mushers and volunteers found all 14 of her dogs without serious injuries. source : Broken back from collision with SUV will keep musher from 2015 Iditarod