New details in a fatal snowmobile crash over the weekend in northern New York. Police now say 41-year-old Everett Willis, of Brainardsville, fell from the his snowmobile and was struck by another snowmobile driven by 41-year-old Todd Harrigan of Chateaugay. It happened on Upper Chateaugay Lake in Dannemora Friday night. No charges...
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Snowmobile accident claims life of Smithville man
McDONOUGH – The Chenango County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the cause of a snowmobile accident that took the life of a Smithville man early Wednesday morning. Sheriff’s Lt. Richard Cobb said 48-year-old Ross Scribner Jr. was killed between 1 and 4 a.m. Wednesday after the Polaris snowmobile he was riding...
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Snowmobiles strike trees, killing Long Island resident
GREIG — A Long Island man died here early Sunday and another man was severely injured when the snowmobiles they were operating struck a group of trees along Partridgeville Road. State police said Frank Orobello, 59, Ronkonkoma, was traveling north with Anthony Gallace, 22, East Meadow, when the pair failed...
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Man id'd in snowmobile fatalityMan id'd in snowmobile fatality
Lucas Matthew Rasset, 28, of Buffalo, has been identified by the Carver County Sheriff’s Office as the snowmobiler who died in an accident near New Germany on Saturday, Feb. 20. According to the Sheriff’s Office, Rasset died after colliding with a guide wire extending from a power pole along County Road...
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Snowmobiler almost strikes officer while fleeing scene
FORESTPORT — A snowmobiler faces several charges after authorities said he almost struck an officer during a snowmobile enforcement initiative that involved the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office and state Department of Environmental Conservation officers. At about 7:10 p.m. Friday, Craig S. Kratzenberg, 40, of Forestport, was operating a 2006 Arctic...
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Man dies after crashing snowmobile into tree
HERKIMER COUNTY, N.Y. — A New Jersey man is dead after crashing his snowmobile in Herkimer County. Police in the Town of Webb were called to Big Moose Road at about 2 p.m. Sunday. They say Patrick Naughton, 64, was driving his snowmobile on the road when he lost control...
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2 dead in Adirondack snowmobile accidents
SCHROON, N.Y. (AP) – Police say two people died in separate snowmobile accidents in the Adirondacks. State police say 21-year-old Benjamin G. Round of Warrensburg died in a snowmobile crash Sunday on Schroon Lake when his sled hit an ice ridge. Round and a passenger were thrown from the snowmobile....
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3 injured in Chautauqua County snowmobile accident
FRENCH CREEK, N.Y. — Three people were injured when a snowmobile crashed head-on into a tree Sunday morning in French Creek, N.Y. Police said Greg Zenko, 40, was driving a snowmobile with three children on a property in the 1600 block of Route 426 in French Creek. About 9:25 a.m.,...
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Hawley: Transfer of $1M from snowmobile fund unacceptable (NY)
Assemblyman Steve Hawley Wednesday called on Gov. David Paterson to remove a proposal from his 2010-2011 executive budget aimed at transferring $1 million from the Snowmobile Trail Development and Maintenance Fund into the State’s General Fund. “This proposal to take $1 million away from the Snowmobile Fund is unacceptable and...
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Man dies in snowmobile accident
CLIFTON, N.Y. – On 01/23/10, St. Lawrence County sheriff’s deputies investigated a fatal snowmobile accident on the Tooley Pond Road near the River Road in the Town of Clifton. Deputies say Mark D. Nichols, 40, of Brownville, N.Y. was traveling north on the east side of the Tooley Pond Road...
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