A 37-year-old man from York, P.E.I., who was reported missing Monday while on a solo snowmobile trip in New Brunswick has been found dead, according to the RCMP.
Kirk Beaton was last seen at approximately 6 p.m. on Jan. 12 at a camp near Island Lake Club in Balmoral Parish, N.B., according to the RCMP in Campbellton, N.B. He was reported missing to police on Jan. 13.
Sgt. François Côté, the operations commanding officer for the RCMP’s Campbellton detachment, said Beaton was found by a commercial truck driver in a remote area without cell service early Tuesday morning.
“A transport truck was travelling on Route 180, and during his travel he spotted a snowmobile that was in the ditch, so he stopped and found a male unconscious near the snowmobile. So he got back in his truck and travelled as far as he could to get radio or cellular signal, and then we got the call,” Côté told CBC News.
Beaton was located just off a groomed snowmobile trail where it intersects with Route 180 in the South Tetagouche area, near Bathurst in northern New Brunswick.
RCMP said he was deceased when first responders arrived. The truck driver who first spotted Beaton’s prone body did not check for vital signs.
Police said Beaton appears to have lost control of his snowmobile and collided with trees.
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