Woman Seriously Injured In Rollover Snowmobile Crash In Pittsburg

PITTSBURG, NH - Rescue personnel from 45th Parallel EMS, Pittsburg Fire and Rescue, and with New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, responded to a restaurant near First Connecticut Lake in Pittsburg

Colebrook Dispatch received a 911 call Saturday at approximately 3:30 p.m. for a female with an upper-body injury from a snowmobile rollover crash located in the restaurant.

The woman operator involved was identified as Courtney Tedeschi, 27, of Albany, New York. Witness statements and snowmobile damage indicate Tedeschi was traveling across First Connecticut Lake when she lost control of her snowmobile.

Tedeschi was abruptly thrown from her snowmobile causing severe injuries to her upper body. Tedeschi was driven to the nearby restaurant by her fiancée. The 45th Parallel EMS team evaluated Tedeschi before being transported to Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital for her injuries.

NH Fish and Game’s Conservation Officers want to remind snowmobilers that with the ongoing unstable winter, riders need to be cautious of ice conditions, pressure ridges, and snow drifts when operating snowmobiles and OHRVs.

In another snowmobile accident a Salem, NH man was seriously injured in a crash in Lincoln on Saturday and was flown by DHART medical helicopter to Dartmouth Hospital.