Todd Palin’s father says his son, who’s married to Sarah Palin, suffered eight fractured ribs and other injuries in a snowmobile accident in Alaska.
Jim Palin tells The Associated Press in a phone
interview that his son also had injuries to his collarbone and lungs,but he doesn’t know the extent of those injuries. He says Todd Palin is scheduled for surgery Monday at a hospital near the Palins’ hometown of Wasilla.
Eight rib fractures, a collar bone injury of some sort and damage to the underlying lungs: I infer he impacted something on his right side. Had he impacted the left side hard enough to fracture that many ribs he’d probably have had a heart contusion or worse.