SNOWMOBILER DIES AFTER HITTING SHORE ON SIX MILE LAKE ISLAND EARLY SUNDAY
MUSKOKA — Another overnight snowmobile accident has led to a death in Georgian Bay Township Sunday.
Provincial police say that early yesterday morning two men were snowmobiling in Georgian Bay Township.
The OPP received a 911 call shortly before 2 a.m., Feb. 20, after the single-vehicle collision on Six Mile Lake at the west shoreline of Walpole Island.
One man was transported by air to a Toronto trauma centre, while the other died on the scene.
The OPP’s technical traffic unit is leading the investigation to determine the cause.
Walpole Island is west of Bala and south of the Wahta First Nation off Hwy. 400 north near Port Severn.
The incident is the just the seventh in a series of serious sledding accidents this winter:
- On Dec. 10 a MacTier man, 26, died near East Black Lake Road in Muskoka Lakes Township. Story.
- On Jan. 29, a man had to crawl out of the lake after going through on Acton Island near Bala.
- The same day Gravenhurst High School teacher George Guppy died after also hitting a tree in Burk’s Falls. Story.
- On Jan. 31, a Woodville man died after hitting a tree on the Fraserburg Road, east of Bracebridge. Story.
- On Feb. 13 a man was taken to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto with life-threatening injuries after hitting a tree just after midnight west of Bala. Story.
- Also that day, a Gravenhurst man was injured when he was thrown from his snowmobile on the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs’ Route D trail near Doe Lake Road. Story.
Meanwhile police have also been busy out on the OFSC trails and lakes checking snowmobilers and reminding them to take extreme caution with ice and trail conditions.
