Vehicle Breaks Through the Ice on Green Lake

On Sunday evening at 7:02, the Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a vehicle that went through the ice on Green Lake in front of the Rush Brown public water access landing at 8387 North Shore Drive of Spicer. The driver of the vehicle, 22-year-old Blake Hiltner of Paynesville, was out of the vehicle and was uninjured.

Hiltner was driving a 2001 Chevrolet Trailblazer on Green Lake when the vehicle broke through the ice about 100 yards in front of the landing. As the front end of the vehicle broke through the ice, Hiltner was able to exit through a window. The vehicle then broke completely through the ice and was fully submerged in about 8-feet of water. The ice depth was about 3-to-5-inches at the place where the vehicle broke through. In the area where it broke through appeared to be a path that had been driven on numerous times in recent days.

Assisting the Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Office were New London Fire Dept., New London Ambulance, Spicer First Responders, Spicer Fire Dept., Kandiyohi County Rescue Squad and the Minnesota DNR.