When Sudbury's Larry Berrio has something to say, he usually says it with music. But this past weekend, after suffering an injury in a snowmobile crash, Berrio took to Facebook to speak his piece.
Berrio issued a warning to fellow snowmachine enthusiasts after he was injured on Whitson Lake on Sunday.
“Sledding across Whitson Lake near my home on a cloudy white-out conditions doing about 50 kms an hour, I hit a snowbank in the middle of nowhere from someone ice fishing,” Larry Berrio said in a Facebook post Sunday.
“They moved their hut, but left three huge mounds of frozen snowbanks. I hit one sending me on one hell of a launch.”
He said he laid on the ice for about 45 minutes trying to catch his breath, “and wondering if my back was broken,” before getting back home, where an ambulance brought him to hospital.
Berrio said he ended up with some badly bruised ribs.
“I'm not posting this to get sympathy, I'm posting the awareness that some idiots have no idea or concern for others when they ice fish!!” he wrote.
“There are hundreds of snowmobilers that cross lakes every day, if your gonna plow room for your hut, remove it or mark the damn thing so this doesn't happen to someone else!!! This was over 200 yards from the nearest hut.”
Berrio wasn't the only person who suffered a snowmobile mishap over the weekend. Greater Sudbury Police said they responded to three snowmobile crashes in one day on Saturday.
Thankfully, Berrio wasn't seriously injured in the crash. After his ordeal, giving a listen to Berrio's tune "What A Ride" seems fitting. Enjoy.
