By Mark LaFlamme,Staff Writer

LEWISTON – Two men were recovering Wednesday after they were hurt in a late-night snowmobile wreck on No Name Pond on Tuesday.

Brian Arsenault, 30, of Greene, and James Conrad, 38, of Lisbon Falls, were each listed in stable condition Wednesday night at Central Maine Medical Center.

The two men were riding their snowmobiles side by side on the frozen pond just before midnight when one of them turned in front of the other, investigators said. The sleds collided and both victims were thrown to the ice with various injuries.

Arsenault and Conrad had been riding with two others when they crashed, investigators said. The other riders, both unhurt, helped direct rescue crews to the scene and provided their snowmobiles to rescue workers.

Arsenault suffered a broken wrist and head injuries in the wreck, said Maine Warden Service spokesman Mark Latti. Conrad suffered injuries to a shoulder and his ribs.

Rescue crews from Lewiston and Sabattus both responded and found the pair of injured riders on the lake roughly a half-mile from No Name Pond Road. Both men were conscious and near their snowmobiles.

United Rescue paramedics stabilized the injured men, then loaded them onto baskets that were hauled off the ice by the snowmobiles. A member of the Hillside Family Riders Snowmobile Club went to the scene of the wreck with a specially equipped truck to offer his assistance to rescuers.

The Warden Service said Wednesday the crash remains under investigation. It was believed speed may have been a factor.

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