Burnett Co. – Two Burnett County men are ordered to pay up after drinking and operating a snowmobile. Authorities say Jason Pierce and Travis Demarre were arrested in February after a fatal snowmobile crash on Krueger Rd., north of Highway 70. Their friend, Jeffrey Busse of Webster, died in the...
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Upstate NY man accused of snowmobiling drunk in June
Associated Press – June 18, 2010 3:15 AM ET WAYLAND, N.Y. (AP) – A Steuben County man has been charged with operating a snowmobile while drunk – in June. State police say 46-year-old Carl Kruchten of Wayland was arrested after they got reports of someone snowmobiling across yards and causing...
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Snowmobile DWI sentence handed down
By DREW AMO Staff Writer WASECA — A Waseca man has been sentenced to four years imprisonment after pleading guilty to felony DWI from a snowmobile incident in December 2009. Lester Ray Bronstad, 35, had the other felony DWI charge and gross misdemeanor charge of driving after cancellation he was...
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Alcohol believed to be factor in fatal snowmobile crash
ctvwinnipeg.ca A 46-year-old man from The Pas died after a snowmobile crash on Tuesday morning, said RCMP. Police are continuing to investigate but said alcohol is believed to be a factor in the collision. Officers and emergency crews in The Pas were called around 11 a.m. to the crash at...
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Woman suspected of drunken snowmobiling in Wis.
MONROE, Wis. (AP) – A 44-year-old woman suspected of drunken snowmobiling after a crash in southern Wisconsin tells Green County sheriff’s deputies the sled wouldn’t stop. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that on Saturday afternoon the woman was driving her snowmobile across a field when she claims she found it...
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Two cited with DWI after sled mishap
A wrong turn out of Taco Bell, Route 11, early Tuesday ended up with two men being charged with driving while intoxicated, according to state police. Chad M. Hall, 24, of 33727 Shimel Road, LaFargeville, made a right instead of a left onto Johnson Road about 2 a.m., police said,...
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Lawmaker pushes for tougher recreational OWI laws (WI)
Eau Claire (WQOW)-With four snowmobile crashes in three days in Western Wisconsin, a lawmaker says something has to be done. One of those recent crashes was fatal. Dale Frederick, from Chippewa Falls, was killed yesterday. He was 81. Two of the biggest factors in most snowmobile crashes are speed and...
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Speed + alcohol = deadly combination on a snowmobile
Thirteen people have died so far this snowmobile season in Wisconsin, but the DNR says the vast majority of these crashes could be avoided if people slowed down and avoided alcohol while driving....
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Snowmobile crash kills man, injures passenger
CHROON LAKE — One Warren County man was killed and another is in critical condition after a snowmobile they were riding on Sunday struck a snow bank and crashed, State Police said. Police said the 2002 Yamaha snowmobile driven by Benjamin A. Round, 21, of Warrensburg hit a two-foot snow...
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Crashes send snowmobilers to hospital
Western Wisconsin (WQOW) - Two snowmobilers are taken to the hospital after separate crashes. In one case, the Dunn County Sheriff’s Office says a 30-year-old man from Clear Lake is in critical condition after his sled ran into a tree. It happened in the Town of Lucas Saturday night. A friend...
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