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Friday, March 13, 2015Area:
Duluth, MN-Superior, WIDedominces was driving a snowmobile on Lake Pequaywan shortly after 9:30pm when he crashed into an island, ejecting both him and his passenger Wigstrom. Authorities have said the Dedominces was under the influence of alcohol and traveling at a high rate of speed when the crash occurred, which left him in critical condition and Wigstrom in stable condition, though both are expected to survive.
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Friday, February 27, 2015Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNA 49-year-old man from Andover, MN was riding a snowmobile at around 2:30 a.m. when he failed to negotiate a turn and left the trail, hitting some trees. First aid was administered until first responders could arrive with a rescue vehicle to transport him to Aspirus Keweenaw Hospital. The man was reportedly in stable condition, but is going to be flown to a Level 1 Trauma Center in Minnesota for further treatment. Alcohol and speed are believed to have been involved in the accident. Incident is still under investigation.
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Friday, March 14, 2014Area:
Boston, MAA New Hampshire man has died in an early morning snowmobile crash in Barnstead.
Authorities say Aaron E. Brown of Dover was operating a snowmobile on private property at about 1:15 a.m. Saturday when he failed to negotiate a turn in a trail and collided with several trees. Brown was wearing a helmet.
Authorities say it appears that speed and alcohol may have contributed to the crash.
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Friday, February 28, 2014Area:
Portland-Auburn, MEA New Hampshire woman is recovering from injuries suffered when her snowmobile hit a rock wall on Lake Umbagog in Errol.
New Hampshire Fish and Game officials say 43-year-old Roxanne Bonney was traveling a high rate of speed across the lake when she struck exposed rocks and was thrown from her snowmobile.
She was taken by ambulance to Androscoggin Valley Hospital for treatment.
The accident happened at about 5 p.m. Saturday.
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Friday, February 21, 2014Area:
Milwaukee, WIA missing snowmobiler was found dead after he apparently crashed on an ice-covered lake in Walworth County over the weekend.
Searchers were called to Lake Delavan around 8 a.m. Sunday to look for the 51-year-old man who had been missing about 12 hours.
Investigators said the man's family found his snowmobile out on the frozen lake Sunday morning and called police.
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Friday, February 7, 2014Area:
Boston, MAState environmental police are investigating a fatal weekend snowmobile crash in Winchendon.
A department spokesman stated that a 49-year-old local man died when his snowmobile struck a tree at a high rate of speed at about 1 p.m. Saturday.
Authorities identified the man as Michael McGregor.
The crash occurred at the Lake Dennison recreation area.
Winchendon police and firefighters and environmental police responded.
The man was taken to Heywood Hospital in Gardner.
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Thursday, February 6, 2014Area:
Boston, MAAuthorities say a man was seriously hurt in Winchester Friday afternoon after crashing in a field. Police say speed contributed to the crash.
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014Area:
Milwaukee, WIA snowmobiler crashed into a tree on a trail in Kansasville Thursday night, leaving the driver unconscious with serious head injuries, according to a release from the Racine County Sheriff's Office.
The incident occurred about 11:30 p.m. near the intersection of Highway 11 and Highway 75. The driver, who was wearing a helmet, missed a curve, went off trail and was ejected toward the tree. He had to be flown to Froedtert Hospital via Flight for Life.
Speed and alcohol were believed to be factors.
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Friday, January 31, 2014Area:
Marquette, MIThe Florence County Sheriff's Office says a De Pere man has died in a snowmobile crash in northeastern Wisconsin.
The accident happened just before 2 a.m. Saturday in the Town of Tipler.
Authorities say the snowmobile went off a road and hit a tree. The victim was identified as 48-year-old Russell Krause of De Pere. Officials say he was wearing a helmet at the time, but died on impact.
The sheriff's office says alcohol and speed were contributing factors in the crash.
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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.