Brooklyn woman injured in snowmobile crash in Waterbury

February 19, 2021 | By Lisa Scagliotti

A Brooklyn, N.Y., woman was taken to UVM Medical Center on Friday with injuries she sustained in a snowmobile crash on a trail in Waterbury, according to Vermont State Police. 

It was just after 6 p.m. when troopers responded along with Stowe Mountain Rescue to a snowmobile collision on a Vermont Association of Snow Travelers (VAST) trail in the

Cotton Brook section of Waterbury near the town line with Stowe. 

Police identified the operator of the snowmachine as 24-year-old Michelle Yagual. 

Trooper Joseph Szarejko said Yagual was traveling with a group of people, all on their own snowmobiles, and she was the last in a line. 

It was dark and snowing as Yagual rounded a corner and lost control of her snowmobile, which crashed into a tree, he said. 

The collision caused Yagual to fall off her snowmobile. “Everybody rendered assistance to her and she was able to be transported out on a stretcher,” Szarejko recounted. 

The Stowe first responders took Yagual to UVM Medical Center in Burlington for treatment of chest, neck, shoulder, and hip injuries, police said. A hospital spokesman Saturday morning said Yagual was treated and released.

The 2020 Polaris snowmobile Yagual was driving sustained moderate front-end damage, police said.  

This was the second emergency involving a snowmobile accident that state police responded to in Waterbury this week. On Sunday, Feb. 14, a Middlesex man riding alone on a VAST trail in Waterbury Center was killed when his snowmobile crashed into a tree.