Canada has seen a rash of fatal and near-fatal snowmobile accidents over New Year’s. The mishaps occurred in suburban Toronto, Halifax and at Blackcomb Mountain, British Colmbia. They have seen two people die and one admitted to Sunnybrook Hospital in grave condition. Locally, a man died in King Township when the snow machine slammed into a parked boat at what appears to have been a party in the early hours of Sunday, January 3, 2015. York Regional Police say they were called to a home on Keele St. east of Hwy. 400 just after 5 a.m. to find a 34-year-old man in the backyard suffering serious head and other injuries. Insp. Duncan MacIntyre said a “social event” had been going on at the home and that police were speaking with people who witnessed the incident. Police are treating it as a criminal investigation, he added, noting investigators are looking into the possibility of drugs or alcohol being involved.
NOVA SCOTIA
In Nova Scotia police say a 29-year-old Halifax woman is dead after her snowmobile hit a tree in Armstrong Lake in King’s County. A preliminary investigation indicates the woman, who was wearing a helmet, was operating the snow machine on a groomed trail when she crashed into a tree. She was pronounced dead at the scene, while a male passenger received minor injuries.
An Australian tourist is dead after his snowmobile hit a tree during a tour with the Whistler-based Canadian Wilderness Adventures (CWA) on New Year’s Day. A 54-year-old woman passenger was taken to Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver the company said. The tour was descending Blackcomb Mountain around 11 p.m. when the man appeared to lose control of the snowmobile, leave the snowmobile track and hit a tree.
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