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Kenosha man dies in snowmobile crash

Posted at 4:17 PM, Feb 26, 2017
and last updated 2017-02-26 18:53:07-05

A Kenosha man has died and another man was injured following a snowmobile crash in Saint Germain, Wisconsin.

According to the Oneida County Sheriff's Department the crash happened just before 11:00 Saturday night.

Deputies were dispatched to the snowmobile trail near the Rustic Manor in Saint Germain.  When they arrived they discovered 62-year-old Jeffrey Schultz of Kenosha had hit a utility pole on the snowmobile trail.

Schultz died at the scene.  His passenger, a 43-year-old Saint Germain man, was taken to Howard Young Medical Center for non-life threatening injuries.

The crash is still under investigation.

According to records from the Department of Natural Resources this is the 15th deadly snowmobile crash of the 2016-2017 season.