EMC News -A 27-year-old Pakenham area man sustained serious head injuries when the snowmobile he was driving crashed into an ice shack on Madawaska Lake early Saturday morning.

The man was transported to an Ottawa hospital in critical condition after his snowmobile hit the ice-fishing hut on Madawaska Lake south of Arnprior.

Ottawa Paramedics arrived at approximately 1 a.m., where they found the man suffering from serious head injuries. He was extricated with assistance from the Mississippi Mills Fire Department.

The Ontario snowmobile accident is still being investigated by Ottawa Police and the Ontario Provincial Police.

Photos show the shack, located on the lake just off of 12th concession, was left destroyed and burned. The hut owner Marty Desarmia has had a shack on the lake for 10 years and has been in that exact spot for the past five.

Fortunately, no one was in the hut at the time of the incident. Desarmia's son was going to go that night with four or five friends but they opted to play hockey instead.