Nicholas Brown, 57, crawls 2 miles to safety after snowmobile crash in Mexico, Maine

A Maine man said he crawled 2 1/2 miles in below-freezing temperatures to get help after breaking his leg in a snowmobiling accident. Nicholas Brown said it took him more than six hours to crawl down a hill in the town of Mexico last week to get to a friend’s house. The 57-year-old Brown stated that he had gone to his snowmobiling club’s house last Thursday to leave membership applications and maps. He lost control going around a corner on some ice on his way home at about 9 p.m. ‘‘The sled went kind of broadside, and it was sliding sideways down the trail and I put my feet down thinking that (the sled) was going to flip over,’’ Brown said. He then overcorrected and the sled came back toward his leg. He didn’t have a cellphone, so he used his elbows to crawl on his belly a mile and a half to a road. Then he got up on his hands and knees to crawl, arriving at the friend’s home at 3:30 a.m. Friday.