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Snowmobile fatalities 2024-25

Snowmobile fatalities 2024-25

2024-25 Michigan DNR Law Enforcement Division Snowmobile Fatality Summary

Last updated: August 25, 2025

Deaths: 16

# Date Time County Location Age/Sex Alcohol/Drugs present Residency Safety Certificate Pending/Final Comment
1 11/26/2024 5:34 p.m. Dickinson Private Property/Knight Avenue 43/M Unknown Michigan No Final Victim was operating snowmobile on private property with 9yo passenger. sustaining fatal injuries. Toxicology results unavailable for reporting.
2 12/22/2024 1:46 p.m. Grand Traverse Snowmobile Trail #5/Rasho Road 32/M None Illinois No Final Victim was seated as a passenger on a snowmobile what was operating on the groomed snowmobile trail. Operator was traveling at a high rate of speed and loss leaving the trail and striking a powerline tower. Victim struck tower with head resulting in fatal injuries. Speed and inexperience contributing factors.
3 12/25/2024 9:45 p.m. Oakland Tucker Road/Holly Road 47/F Alcohol .105% Florida Unknown Final Victim was operating at a high rate of speed on a county road. Victim failed to negotiate a curve and went off a tree and transported to the hospital where she succumbed to the injuries.
4 01/05/2025 4:35 p.m. Houghton Trail #8/M-28 63/M Alcohol .129% Wisconsin Unknown Final Victim failed to negotiate corner on a groomed snowmobile trail. Snowmobile left trail striking a large tree. Victim was ejected striking multiple smaller trees.
5 01/06/2025 n/a Kalkaska W. Sharon Road/Deibert Road 38/M None Michigan None Final While operating on a county road, snowmobile struck a deer which caused a loss of control with the snowmobiling going off the roadway into the ditch. The snowmobile/victim went airborne and struck a tree. Unknown exact time of crash. Victim was located deceased on the date recorded.
6 01/07/2024 n/a Ontonagon Snowmobile Trail #1/M-64 56/M Alcohol .150% Wisconsin Unknown Final Victim was operating on a groomed snowmobile trail when he failed to negotiate a curve striking multiple small saplings. Victim was ejected and struck a private property gate post. Unknown exact time of crash. Victim was located deceased the morning of the date recorded.
7 01/10/2024 12:45 p.m. Ontonagon Trail #3/M-26 44/M None Wisconsin Unknown Final While operating on a straight portion of the groomed snowmobile trail, right snowmobile ski came in contact with an embankment on the edge of the trail. This caused a loss of control where the victim was ejected, striking into tree.
8 01/17/2025 7:20 p.m. Schoolcraft Snowmobile Trail #41/Dump Road 46/F Unknown Wisconsin Unknown Final While negotiating a curve on the groomed snowmobile trail, the victim loss control of the snowmobile causing it to cross the centerline, exiting the trail side. Upon leaving the trail, the snowmobile/victim colliding with a tree. Toxicology results unavailable for reporting.
9 01/21/2025 9 p.m. Emmet Snowmobile Trail #7/Linsley Road 60/M Alcohol .090% Michigan None Final While operating southbound on a straight portion of the groomed snowmobile trail, victim loss control crossing the centerline side. Snowmobile collided with multiple trees, resulting in fatal injuries to the operator.
10 01/25/2025 3:35 p.m. Mecosta Snowmobile Trail #5/180th Avenue 60/M None Michigan None Final Prior to the crash, victim was allegedly drag racing alongside another snowmobile on the groomed snowmobile trail. At some point loss control, leaving the groomed snowmobile trail striking a tree.
11 01/26/2025 3:09 p.m. Luce Off Trail Crash/CR 421 37/M None Michigan None Final Victim was operating off trail in a backcountry setting. During operation, snowmobile went airborne striking trees and brush resulting in fatal injuries to the operator.
12 01/31/2025 11:55 p.m. Ontonagon Snowmobile Trail #3/Old County Road 36/M Alcohol .230% Wisconsin Unknown Final Victim failed to negotiate a snowmobile striking a tree. curve while operating on the groomed snowmobile trail. Snowmobile left the trail striking multiple trees. Victim was ejected from the snowmobile striking a tree.
13 02/08/2025 5:51 p.m. Antrim Trail 76/Mels Road 26/F Alcohol .102% Pending Pending Final During operation on a groomed trail, snowmobile left the trail while attempting to negotiate a slight turn. Upon leaving the trail the snowmobile struck a tree The was ejected and struck the tree resulting in fatal injuries.
14 02/28/2025 5:47 p.m. Otsego Trail 448/Dagon Road 37/M Alcohol .02% and Marijuana Michigan Pending Final Operator had a medical episode during operation of snowmobile on a groomed snowmobile trail. Operator made statements during medical treatment stump. Unknown if and/or where collision occurred or if it had anything to do with the onset of the medical incident.
15 03/03/2025 n/a Alger Trail 8/Camp Autrain 61/M None Michigan Pending Final Operator was passing members of his riding group at a high rate of speed on a groomed snowmobile trail when he lost control from the snowmobile into a tree.
16 03/05/2025 n/a Alger Trail 8/M-94 59/M Unknown Indiana Pending Final Operator lost control while negotiating a corner and proceeded over the embankment. The snowmobile overturned trapping the operator beneath the machine. results unavailable for reporting.