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WEST TURIN, N.Y. (AP) — Two people were killed in a head-on snowmobile crash in Lewis County, the Utica Observer-Dispatch reported.

The Lewis County Sheriff's Office said Sunday that 48-year-old Jay Isabelle of Oneida and 21-year-old Jesse Rosebush of Jordan, Onondaga County, were killed in the accident on the Glenfield and Western railroad bed in West Turin in the Tug Hill Plateau area.

Deputies told the Utica Observer-Dispatch that Rosebush was traveling east when he failed to keep right and struck Isabelle head on. The two were thrown from their vehicles and pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities are still investigating the crash.

The crash is the latest in a deadly month for snowmobilers in New York. At least six other men have died so far in February after driving their snowmobiles over ice too thin to support them. The incidents occurred on Raquette Pond in the Adirondacks, Lake Champlain on the New York-Vermont border and Conesus Lake in the Finger Lakes region.

Late last week, a State Police trooper fell through the ice during a harrowing rescue of a snowmobiler in the Adirondacks.

Read an earlier story about the snowmobile accidents here.

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