WESTFORD, Mass. - A 44-year-old Groton man was listed in fair condition today at Massachusetts General Hospital after surviving a snowmobile crash on Forge Pond Saturday afternoon.
Brian J. Brule, 45, was traveling on the snow-covered ice in the mid-afternoon when his yellow and black snowmobile became airborne.
Police speculate that Brule hit ice ridges while traveling at a high rate of speed.
“It looks like he went airborne at one point and came off the snowmobile,” said Captain Victor Neal of the Westford Police Department.
Neal said Brule’s helmet flew off his head in the accident.
Brule was transported off the ice and taken to the Stony Brook School where he was air lifted to Boston.
State Environmental police who had been on the pond earlier that day to monitor an ice fishing tournament were on the scene investigating the accident, and determined the vehicle was not registered, said Neal.
An investigation is ongoing, he said.
