Weekend Fatalities

[gary_in_neenah]

STANNARD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WLUC) - One man is dead after a snowmobile crash Friday night in Ontonagon County.
Deputies were called just after 11:00 p.m. Friday to a crash on Trail #3 near Federal Forest Rd. 730 and US-45 in Stannard Township, according to a press release the Ontonagon County Sheriff’s Office issued Monday morning. Arriving crews found a 36-year-old man from Bonduel, Wis.
EMS and first responders initiated life-saving measures. The man was pronounced dead a short while later.
SONCO South Ambulance Service, the Bruce Crossing Fire Department, the Ontonagon County Medical Examiner’s Office, Cane Funeral Home and Lake Gogebic Towing all assisted at the scene.
The sheriff’s office says the crash remains under investigation, but speed and alcohol appear to be factors.


FOND DU LAC, Wis. (WFRV) – Authorities in Fond du Lac County say one man is dead after a UTV went into the water on Lake Winnebago on Saturday afternoon.
According to the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office, on February 1, around 12:30 p.m., a 911 call came in from someone saying they were on Lake Winnebago and two people fell into open water. The caller said they got them out of the water but one person had no pulse and was not breathing. Multiple agencies responded to the scene.

 

[indy_500]

There is another one as well that I haven’t seen a report for… guy in his mid 20s that works at another local machine shop died yesterday on a sled, not sure the location.

 

[indy_500]

 

[hermie]

So sad to see loss of life. Unfortunately most of these unnecessary loss of life seems to have 1 common factor. I just don't understand drinking and then getting behind a wheel of any motorized vehicle. Most know by now that a lot of times the final results aren't good but yet you read about it every weekend. The SxS one sounds like the people just didn't do there due diligence on ice conditions. I can't remember another year with so many people falling through the ice. That part is weird because it's been pretty cold overall. Maybe that's part of the problem people are just taking it for granted the ice is safe and not doing due diligence.

 

[pclark]

40 years ago our group was snowmobiling based In Minocqua, stayed at the hotel where the condos are by the Yacht Club. We were at Heart II in Woodruff until they closed, yep we were very young and drank a lot back then, it had to be -25 that night we got back on the first lake to head back and my buddy had a 440 exciter and passed us all hauling ass down the lake. He missed the trail and drove straight into the woods, I was first to get to him, seeing his sled impaled on a tree, looked around and found him20 ft off to the right laying on his back. I said “Wally, say something!, he spit out 2 bloody teeth, I had him wiggle his toes and fingers, we loaded him on the back of another sled, back to the hotel and then over to Howard Young Emergency Room. He was lucky, nothing broken, he missed 4 months of work, and his girlfriend, now wife, told him when he got home that his snowmobiling days were over. Definitely alcohol was the factor, no authorities were ever called so no one ever knew but us. We were young, stupid, and lucky. I don’t drink while I ride anymore, not worth it.

 

[jjj70095]

What year did they start having trails in Minocqua? My uncle said in the 70's there were no trails and you could drive anywhere with a sled.

 

[pclark]

It was probably 79-80 that we started going up there snowmobiling, back then a long trip was 40 miles and usually someone broke down. But there were trails between the towns back then.