Once again, another vehicle fell through lake ice in central Minnesota, and once again the motorist survived without injury.
At about 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, a car driven by Kenneth Stofflet, 61, of Sartell, sunk through the ice into water that was about three feet deep near the shore of Pearl Lake in Maine Township, Stearns County.
According to the sheriff’s report, Stofflet was leaving the lake in an Oldsmobile car that was pulling a trailer and three-wheeler when the incident occurred at an area filled with cattail plants.
A towing company removed the vehicle.
Law-enforcement agencies and weather watchers are advising people to stay off the lakes because of many areas where the ice is dangerously thin. There have been many incidents of ice crash-throughs in recent weeks, none of them fatal and none resulting in serious injuries.
