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MOOSEHEAD LAKE, Maine - Maine just saw its deadliest weekend for snowmobiling this riding season with three fatal crashes, two on Friday and one on Sunday when a Wiscasset man died following a crash on Moosehead Lake when he struck a pressure ridge at a high rate of speed southeast of Hogback Island.
Gregory Lemar , 59, was operating a late model Arctic Cat 800 headed toward Rockwood from Greenville shortly after 5 p.m. when the accident occurred His wife, Wanda Lamar, was on a second snowmobile following behind.
Lemar, who was wearing a helmet, was pronounced dead at the scene. The incident took place approximately five miles from Rockwood Village.
Sunday's crash brings to seven the number of fatal snowmobile incidents this riding season in Maine. Over the last 10 years in Maine, an average of six snowmobilers die each year in snowmobile related incidents.
Sunday's tragic accident followed two earlier weekend fatalities on Friday when a Massachusetts man crashed into a stand of trees near Abol Bridge south of Baxter State Park and a 41-year-old Pennsylvania woman died in a rollover crash near Rangeley.
The woman was operating a 2014 Ski-Doo 900 Grand Touring snowmobile on Bald Mountain Camps Trail when the crash took place around 11 a.m. A male passenger, also 41, and from Pennsylvania, was seated behind her when she failed to negotiate a turn in the trail. As a result, the snowmobile rolled on its side and struck trees along the trail. The female operator died at the scene.
New Hampshire, meanwhile, has seen only one fatality, which occurred in Stratford on Jan. 18 when a 55-year-old Rhode Island man succumbed to injuries after he crashed due at least in part to excessive speed, officials said.
New Hampshire Fish and Game are now warning folks snowmobiling on state lakes and ponds to make sure the ice is at least 10 inches thick before venturing out.
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