Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty goes for a snowmobile ride in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, February 5, 2010 as Canada plays host to the G7 Finance Ministers in the northern community. The meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations is the biggest event ever to hit this town of 6,000 on the southern tip of Baffin Island. AFP PHOTO/GEOFF ROBINS (credit: GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images)
EXCELSIOR (WCCO) — A 56-year-old man was taken to the hospital after two snowmobiles collided on Lake Minnetonka Thursday afternoon, according to the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office.
A group of three friends were riding snowmobiles when on sled struck another, authorities said.
A 46-year-old California man was thrown from his snowmobile, but was not injured. The 56-year-old Tonka Bay man was taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center. A third man, also 46 years old and from California, was not taken to the hospital.
The collision took place about a half mile from the shore near Tonka Bay in Excelsior.
