One person was seriously injured just after midnight near Cartier, Ont., when a snowmobile crashed into a tree.
Ontario Provincial Police responded along with paramedics to the single-vehicle collision on trail C111D.
“Preliminary investigation indicated that three (snow machines) were travelling on an open trail when the lead (snowmobile) left the trail system and struck a tree,” police said in a news release Thursday.
The 44-year-old driver, from Quinte West, was taken to the local hospital by ambulance with serious injuries.
When speaking with the other two drivers, police determined one had been consuming alcohol. A breath screening device registered a ‘warn’ reading and the 42-year-old driver was issued a three-day driver’s licence suspension.
The investigation is ongoing with the assistance of the OPP's technical collision investigators to determine the cause of the collision.
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