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Wednesday, March 12, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA Cowlesville man died sometime overnight after the snowmobile he was riding southbound on Folsomdale Road in the Town of Bennington traveled off the east shoulder of the road and struck a road sign, Wyoming County sheriff’s officials said today.
Jeffery J. Kirsch, 30, was discovered early this morning by a town plow truck operator and pronounced dead at the scene just south of Bear Road, sheriff’s officials said.
Sheriff’s deputies were assisted by the Strykersville Fire Department, Harris Corners Fire Department and Wyoming County Emergency Services. The investigation is continuing.
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Saturday, February 15, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA pair from Williamsville were injured when their snowmobiles crashed on Redwing Road early Sunday afternoon, the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office said.
The crash happened at about 12:40 p.m. after 51-year-old Elizabeth Oswald stopped her snowmobile at the top of a hill.
Eric Oswald, 52, was following behind and struck the stopped snowmobile broadside.
Eric Oswald suffered a head injury and was taken to Hammot Hospital in Erie, Pa., for treatment. Elizabeth Oswald suffered a leg injury and was treated at the scene, the Sheriff’s Office said.
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Friday, January 31, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA 31-year-old Ohio woman was arrested overnight for snowmobiling while intoxicated after she crashed into an ice fishing shanty, narrowly missing the three occupants, on Chautauqua Lake, sheriff’s deputies reported.
Chautauqua County deputies responded at 1 a.m. to the reported accident. They found that Christina M. Black, of Burghill, Ohio, had been operating a 2006 Ski-Doo snowmobile northbound on the lake’s frozen surface, about 200 yards from the shore of Lakeside Park in Mayville, when she struck the shanty, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA 70-year-old Marilla man who left home on a snowmobile Thursday morning was found dead near his crashed snowmobile in the Town of Sheldon early this morning after an extensive search that included deputies, firefighters and members of a snowmobile club.
According to a press release from the Wyoming County Sheriff’s Office, Wesley J. Kless of E. Blood Road, Marilla went out for a ride on his snowmobile at 11 a.m. Thursday and was reported missing by a concerned family member some time later.