With the three fatalities announced by the OPP overnight, the number of fatal snowmobile accidents in Canada is rising quickly. Known and widely reported cases seem to number at least 11 since New Year’s. Two men are reported to have died early today (Saturday, January 30, 2016) as a result of injuries received when their snowmobile crashed through ice on Go Home Lake near Georgian Bay west of the TransCanada Highway. Another died Friday night in an apparently similar way in the waters of Dark Lake in Haliburton. Yesterday, five snowmobilers died in an avalanche near McBride B.C. On the New Year’s weekend there were reports of deaths in King Township, Nova Scotia and during a Wilderness Adventure vacation on Blackcomb Mountain in B.C.
