(Photo courtesy of Families First)(Photo courtesy of Families First)
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Funeral details announced for snowmobile driver killed in crash

The driver of a snowmobile involved in a crash in Amherstburg earlier this week will be laid to rest Saturday.

Mark Jonathan Allen was operating a snowmobile early Wednesday morning on the Fourth Concession North near County Road 8. Windsor police believe the snowmobile hit something on the road before it left the roadway. Allen was thrown from the vehicle and died in the hospital.

Allen was also an employee at Magna Integram.

The first visitation is at Families First Funeral Home on Dougall Avenue in Windsor from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday. The second is Friday evening from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

A third visitation is from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday morning before the service gets underway at 11:30 a.m.

Allen was 30-years-old.

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