RUMFORD – An injured snowmobiler, circled by a pack of coyotes all night, was found off Route 232 early Tuesday morning when a 10-year-old boy waiting for a school bus heard his cries for help.

Dylan Roberts was waiting for the bus with his 15-year-old brother, Shawn, and his 6-year-old sister, Caitlynn. The boy’s mother, Renee Roberts, said Dylan heard the cries from Eric Westleigh, 23, of Rumford, who appeared to have broken both of his legs.

“We just want to thank everybody who helped him,” Westleigh’s wife, Kelly, said from his hospital bedside Tuesday night.

Eric Westleigh was hypothermic and had been shouting most of the night, said Renee Roberts, an emergency room nurse at Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway.

Roberts, who was on her day off, treated Westleigh at the scene while waiting for an ambulance crew, she said. She used blankets and towels from her home to warm him.

“I took my sock off and tied together the laceration on his left leg,” she said.

She said coyote tracks could be seen in the snow right up to the accident area.

Westleigh told her he was an Iraq war veteran and he seemed pretty tough, she said, but she did not have much more information about him. She believed he broke both bones in his lower left leg, and that he may have broken his right leg, as well.

Westleigh was riding alone and had not been reported missing, said Warden Service spokeswoman Deborah Turcotte. Overnight temperatures dipped into the 20s, she said.

He was riding on a secondary marked-and-groomed trail off Route 232 in Rumford Point about 11 p.m. Monday when he hit a tree head-on, according to Game Warden Brock Clukey. Westleigh, who was wearing a helmet, seriously injured his hip and legs and was unable to leave the trail, Turcotte noted in a news release, adding that the impact forced his helmet and boots to come off.

At about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dylan Roberts heard Westleigh’s screams from across a field, about 300 feet away, Turcotte said.

“I’m just so proud of Dylan,” his mother said. “I’m an ER nurse, so I save lives every day, but he definitely did a good thing.”

Westleigh was taken first to Rumford Hospital and later flown by LifeFlight of Maine to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. A spokeswoman at CMMC said Westleigh was still being evaluated Tuesday afternoon and no condition report was available.

The Warden Service urges snowmobilers not to travel alone or to let another person know where they are going and when they will be back, Turcotte said.

She said spring trail conditions can change quickly, going from soft to freezing, and that using extra caution is advisable.