Alcohol is being blamed for a snowmobile accident that sent one man to hospital with unknown injuries Friday evening.

Emergency crews responded to a report about a collision about three miles west of Highway 3 in the R.M. of Stanley.

A 25-year-old male passenger from Carman was injured in the collision.

Altona RCMP took a 23-year-old Carman man into custody and charged him with impaired operation of a motor vehicle.