Looks like it happened last weekend, didn't see that anyone posted it. Luckily the driver was fine.

http://www.wmur.com/news/15335050/detail.html

MILTON, N.H. -- A man was rescued from an icy pond in Milton over the weekend when the 4-ton grooming machine he was driving broke through the ice, sinking more than 30 feet below the surface.

Driver Mike Hazeltine said he tried not to panic when he crashed into the water on Saturday, but he said he started to wonder if he would ever make it out alive.

"The coldness hits your body," Hazeltine said. "You can't move as fast. You can't think. I don't know how to explain it."

Hazeltine said it felt like it took forever for the groomer he was driving to sink to the bottom of Milton Three Ponds. But witnesses said it took seconds for the 8,000-pound machine to submerge in 30 feet of water.

When the machine crashed through the ice, he was able to take a final gasp of air as the cab filled with water and he tried to make his way out through the passenger-side window.

"I made it to the top, and what I thought was the top was actually the ice, and I worked my way to where the ice chunks had filled the hole, and someone grabbed my hand," he said.

Hazeltine had been cleaning up the ice for his snowmobiling club as Milton's annual winter carnival was winding down. Many people were still around, and they rushed over to where the machine fell through.

"I saw everybody running over to the hole," witness Joe Sheehan said. "Then, when I looked, I saw his hand come out of the ice, and everybody pulled him right out."

Cold and disoriented, Hazeltine was able to get out of his wet clothes and into an ambulance. He said that as he dropped to the bottom of the pond, he was thinking about his family. His sister was called as he was being driven to a hospital.

"I just figured he fell and twisted his ankle again, but when they told me he went down and came back up, I was very thankful," said his sister, Michelle Peaslee.

Hazeltine is not sure who pulled him out, but he wants them to know how much it meant.

"Thank you very much," he said. "You guys saved my life. People risk their own lives to help people, you know?"

Hazeltine said he thinks he'll still go snowmobiling, but he'll never drive a groomer on the ice again.

old news Groomer

insane, thank god hes ok

wowzers!

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Here is the link it doesnt seem to be working but the pictures are on www...com under lakes region..

Kinda fun when I type in sled nh it deletes it

that race is the best backyard race i ever gone to.I hope all went well besides the mishap because that whole town gets into the races.I missed the race this year,theres a good bunch of people over in Milton.