LOVELL – A couple renting a snowmobile escaped serious injury Wednesday when they hit a snowbank.
Stoneham Rescue transported Kisha Beaumiller, 23, of Staten Island, N.Y., and Daniel Becker, 25, of Huntington, N.Y., to Bridgton Hospital after the 4:30 p.m. crash on Golf Course Road.
Maine Game Warden spokesman Mark Latti said the driver was inexperienced, and hit the gas instead of the brake. The driver was trying to turn from a trail that runs along Route 5 onto Golf Course Road. The sled sped straight across the road and up a snowbank, launching the couple and the sled about 20 feet.
Beaumiller and Becker landed on the snowbank, not on the road, and complained of bumps and bruises, Latti said.
Latti said the pair had rented the sled, a 1999 Arctic Cat Panther, from Tommy’s Marine in Lovell. The sled sustained some damage, he said.
Wednesday’s snowmobile accident is the 28th recorded this season by the Maine Warden Service. No deaths have occurred to date.
Last year at this time there were 158 accidents, and nine deaths. “No snow means less accidents,” Latti said.
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