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Despite being very familiar with an Anoka County lake, a man crashed his pickup truck through the ice Sunday morning.

Authorities say Jim Flink of Elk River was driving a Chevy Silverado while pulling a snowmobile trailer on Peltier Lake in Lino Lakes when it broke through the ice.

Before the incident, Flink says he stopped and talked to a group of people on the lake who said it had about 14-18 inches of ice. He decided to drive on the lake to go snowmobiling. Flink says the front end of his truck went through ice that was about an inch thick.