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81-Year-Old Man Dies in Snowmobile Crash
LYNCHTOWN TOWNSHIP, Maine (AP) — Authorities say an 81-year-old man was killed in a snowmobile crash in northern Oxford County.
The Maine Warden Service says Raynold Chasse, of Wilton, was on a trail in Lynchtown Township on Friday when he accelerated going around a curve, went off the trail into the woods and over an embankment.
Other snowmobilers, including a group of off duty police and firefighters from Massachusetts, stopped to help but were unable to revive him.
Authorities say Chasse was wearing a helmet.
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