The 2 men hit a concrete barrier put in place to keep motor vehicles out of the Montague State Wildlife Management Area.
UPDATE: Amy Mahler, a spokeswoman for the Environmental Police, said both victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries. One was taken to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.
MONTAGUE – Two men who hit a concrete barrier with their snowmobile in the Montague Plains Saturday night were taken to Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield.
Turners Falls Fire Chief Robert Escott said the two men crashed into a barrier near Plains Road that had been put in place to keep motor vehicles out of the Montague State Wildlife Management Area. Escott said the crash occurred shortly before 9:15 p.m. but had no additional information.
Montague police and a spokeswoman for state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees the Environmental Police, could not be reached for comment.
In Benson, Vt. this weekend a 48-year-old man was killed and a 10-year-old boy was injured when the snowmobile they were jointly operating crashed jumped an embankment and crashed into a tractor trailer truck.