One dead, three injured in snowmobile crash

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A 24-year-old man has died and three others suffered injuries early New Year’s morning in a snowmobile accident in Alma.

The victim was killed after the vehicles collided while traveling over a frozen river in the Lac St. Jean area.

The four people involved were riding on two snowmobiles when they collided just before 2 a.m. Thursday.

Alcohol or other drugs might have played a role in the incident, according to authorities.

Snowmobile deaths have been down this season due to warm spells but at least one other fatal accident has occured in the province this year. A 16-year-old snowmobiler lost his life in mid-December after being found dead near Lake Demontigny in Val D’Or.

Alma is a town of about 30,000 inhabitants that sits about 475 km north of Montreal.