NORTH FRYEBURG – A man was killed and another seriously injured Friday afternoon when a pair of snowmobiles collided head-on near Route 113.

One victim, Michael Corberil, 28, of Buxton was dead at the scene of the 4:30 p.m. wreck and another was taken to a Lewiston hospital by LifeFlight helicopter.

The crash was still being investigated late Friday night by wardens from the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The names of the victims were not released while investigators were contacting their families.

Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife spokesman Mark Latti said both victims are Maine men who are in their 20s.

Investigators said the men were riding in opposite directions on a trail bordering a field between Route 113 and Fish Street. Each was riding alone on their sleds although both were out with other groups of snowmobilers.

Riding toward each other, the men were each approaching a curve in the trail when the 1997 Arctic Cat and a 1998 Polaris collided head-on, Latti said.

The man driving the Arctic Cat was killed. The other man was flown to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston where he remained late Friday in critical condition.

Investigators said it did not appear that excessive speed or reckless driving contributed to the wreck.

“It seems at this point to be a case of horrible timing,” Latti said.

Investigators were contacting family members of both men before releasing their identities.

The death was the fourth fatality so far this year as a result of snowmobile crashes. Last week, a 42-year-old man from Boothbay Harbor was killed when the machine he was riding slammed into a metal guardrail in that town.

In early February, two snowmobile riders plunged into the Saco River in Fryeburg but managed to pull themselves to safety. Those victims were gone before rescue crews arrived and they were never identified.

Last year, 16 people were killed in snowmobile wrecks in this state, setting a Maine record for fatalities involving the machines.

Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife officials say more than 100,000 snowmobiles are registered in Maine.