{"id":127977,"date":"2026-02-09T20:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127977\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:34:48","slug":"one-teen-dead-another-injured-in-freak-upstate-ny-snowmobile-wreck-state-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127977\/","title":{"rendered":"One teen dead, another injured in freak upstate NY snowmobile wreck: state police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An upstate teenager was killed and his 16-year-old pal was injured in a tragic upstate New York snowmobile wreck, state police said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Gregorie, 17, of Varysburg in Wyoming County, was riding a 2012 Ski Doo snowmobile on a marked trail shortly before 12:15 p.m. on Saturday when he lost control and struck a pile of logs, throwing the teen from the vehicle, <a href=\"https:\/\/troopers.ny.gov\/news\/snowmobile-fatal-collision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">troopers said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49772727;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38436451\" width=\"659\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/911-assisted-scene-gregorie-transported-120800403.jpg\" alt=\"Snowmobile collision scene taped off with caution tape in a snowy field.\" class=\"wp-image-38436451\"  \/>State police said two teens were out snowmobiling when they struck a pile of logs and were thrown. NY State Police<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49772727;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38436455\" width=\"659\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/911-assisted-scene-gregorie-transported-120800397.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy trail through a Christmas tree farm.\" class=\"wp-image-38436455\"  \/>One teen was killed when his friend\u2019s snowmobile landed on hjim in a snowy tragedy. NY State Police<\/p>\n<p>The teen\u2019s young friend, who was operating a 2015 Arctic Cat, also crashed into the logs, throwing him and the snowmobile into the air \u2014 with the craft landing on Gregorie.<\/p>\n<p>State police responded to the scene and transported Gregorie to Wyoming County Hospital, where he died, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified 16-year-old suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The deadly mishap came one year short of another snowmobile tragedy, when a 22-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/11\/us-news\/late-night-snowmobile-pile-up-on-frozen-upstate-ny-lake-leaves-one-dead-a-tragic-accident\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Genesee County man was killed<\/a> while on a late-night snowmobile romp with a group of friends.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Schmidt of Batavia was out riding with four friends on Feb. 9, 2025, when the group slammed into abandoned snowmobile on Fourth Lake in Herkimer County.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt\u2019s friends were treated at the scene for injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An upstate teenager was killed and his 16-year-old pal was injured in a tragic upstate New York snowmobile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4325,318,57,9,11,10,49,51,50,2319,8938,817,58],"class_list":["post-127977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-crashes","tag-freak-accidents","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-snowmobiling","tag-state-police","tag-upstate-new-york","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}