2 hurt in snowmobile crash
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By ERIC FRANCIS HERALD CORRESPONDENT - Published: February 9, 2010
A snowmobile sliding off a trail in Mount Tabor crashed into a tree on Sunday afternoon, sending a New Jersey woman to the hospital, authorities said Monday.
Kelly Ann Glowacki, 22, of Sussex, N.J., was listed in critical condition Monday morning after surgery overnight for traumatic head injuries and a broken arm, police said.
By Monday afternoon, Glowacki had been upgraded to satisfactory condition, according to a spokeswoman at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.
When the crash took place, police said, Glowacki was sitting behind Shawn Tussey, 23, also of Sussex, on the back of his rented snow machine as they headed down a trail several miles into the woods near Griffith Lake on the Peru/Danby town line.
The pair was taking part in a tour led by a guide when one of the front skis on Tussey's machine slipped off the trail and the snowmobile headed down into a patch of heavy snow, crashing into the tree, witnesses told police.
Local rescue agencies were notified of the crash by cell phone just after 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
"We had very little information at first, but one of the tour guides came out to lead us in and gave us the update that one of the (victims) was critical," Winhall Police Officer Gould said.
Emergency medical technicians traveled to the crash scene on snowmobiles and towed Glowacki out on a rescue sled.
Glowacki was taken by ambulance to the parking lot at the nearby Bromley Mountain ski area where a landing zone had been set up so she could be taken to a helicopter and airlifted to Dartmouth.
Tussey suffered a broken leg and was taken by ambulance to Springfield Hospital where he was treated and released.
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