COOS COUNTYâ Inexperience was cited by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department as the cause in three separate snowmobile crashes that resulted in serious injuries to the operators.
A Massachusetts woman suffered serious injuries when she lost control of her rental snowmobile Saturday morning on Trail 12a near the warming hut in Randolph.
Colleen M. Legros, 43, of North Andover, Mass., told authorities she had been riding for about an hour when the accident occurred.
Legros told authorities she had little experience snowmobiling and was making a turn when she suddenly mistook the throttle for the brake and accelerated abruptly over a snowbank, through the air and into a tree.
New Hampshire Fish and Game Had a Busy Weekend
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Snowmobile Crash with Injury in Gorham
Gorham: On the late morning of Friday, January 29, 2021, a Massachusetts man sustained significant injuries after crashing his rented snowmobile on the Town Access Trail a short distance from Main Street in Gorham.
It was determined that
Konstantin Ioannidis, 30, of Watertown, MA had been operating a snowmobile as part of a guided tour group. At approximately 11:54 AM, Ioannidis lost control of his machine and subsequently went off of the trail and stuck a tree. Ioannidis was thrown from the machine upon impact and sustained serious injuries a result of the crash. Immediately following the crash, a 911 call was placed from the scene to request medical assistance.
Massachusetts man, woman injured in separate snowmobile crashes in NH
Updated Jan 31, 2021;
A man and woman from Massachusetts were both injured in separate snowmobile crashes in New Hampshire Saturday, according to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Law Enforcement Division.
Authorities were notified about a single person snowmobile crash around 10 p.m. Saturday on the First Connecticut Lake in Pittsburg, New Hampshire.
First responders rushed to the scene and located 30-year-old Giovani Fodera of Reading, Massachusetts.
A Massachusetts man was injured in a snowmobile crash on Jan. 30, 2021 in Pittsburg, New Hampshire.
“Upon interviewing the patient and witnesses to the crash, Conservation Officers determined that Fodera was operating a family member’s snowmobile by himself on First Connecticut Lake,” N.H. Fish and Game officials said. “He admitted to operating it at a very high rate a speed beyond his ability to control. While doing so, he struck rocks, leading up to t