GUILFORD – A Guilford teenager escaped serious injury last Thursday when another snowmobile ran over him on Harlow Pond.

Loren Hersey, 17, was taken to Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft, where he was treated for a broken shoulder and then released, according to Warden Dan Carroll of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

He said the accident occurred at noon Jan. 20, but was not reported until late the next day.

Carroll said Hersey had been snowmobiling with his friend, Jordan Pratt, 16, of Guilford, when he fell off his snowmobile and Pratt, who was traveling on a snowmobile behind, ran over him. The pair allegedly had been traveling 45 mph when the accident occurred, the warden said.

Had Hersey not been wearing a helmet and heavy clothing, he likely would have been seriously hurt, Carroll said. The spikes on the treads made “divots” in the helmet and shredded Hersey’s outer clothing, he said.

Both teenagers were given warnings for failing to report an accident and for operating to endanger, Carroll said.