CALEB NICKERSON
CLARENDON Feb. 23, 2021
A snowmobiler was injured and his sled totalled after he struck a gate along the PPJ trail in Clarendon on Feb. 23.
According to Shawville Clarendon Fire Chief Lee Laframboise, the accident was called in just after . . .
4 p.m., and occurred at the intersection of the PPJ and the Bristol Clarendon Town Line. Laframboise explained that the rider had gone off the trail to cool off the slides on his machine.
“His slides were heating up,” he said. “Sometimes when the ground gets hard and icy, you don’t get much lube, so you go off the trail a wee bit to get some snow under your track. His ski caught … he was trying to correct and it threw him right across and he hit one of the green gates. The gate was open but he hit it right on the end. It was quite bad.”
Members of the Mansfield Fire Department were called in to assist with their off-road rescue equipment, namely a sleigh that can be pulled behind a snowmobile. The victim was taken to hospital with unknown injuries.
THE EQUITY reached out to the Sûreté du Québec for more information, but they didn’t respond back in time for print.
