PAGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA
NEW: Police Identify Man Killed In ATV Crash
Pete DeLea
Updated 7 hrs ago
Police identified a Page County man who died Wednesday night in an all-terrain vehicle crash near Stanley.
Sgt. Les Tyler with the Virginia State Police said Thursday that emergency crews responded to the 800 block of Battlecreek Road about 8 p.m.
He said Page Lynwood Turner, 80, was traveling northbound on a 2003 Honda ATV when he ran off the road, went down an embankment and overturned.
Turner died at the scene.
Tyler said he was not wearing a helmet.
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PAGE COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) -- UPDATE (1:00 p.m. 7/28/2016):
Following last night's fatal ATV accident, the Virginia State Police have released the identity of the victim and details of what happened.
Page Lynwood Turner, an 80-year-old man from Page County, was reportedly driving a 2003 Honda ATV on route 615 at 8:03 p.m. Wednesday night when the vehicle ran off the shoulder and went down an embankment. At the bottom of the embankment, the ATV overturned.
Virginia State Police trooper M.R. Leeds say that Turner was not wearing a helmet and died on scene from injuries sustained in the rollover.
WHSV would like to remind our viewers of the importance of safety precautions while riding ATV's. In the 'Related Stories' section of this article is a link to a recent story on ATV safety.
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Trout Creek man dies in ATV crash in Mineral County
KIM BRIGGEMAN kbriggeman@missoulian.com
Updated 2 hrs ago
SANDERS COUNTY, MONTANA
A 74-year-old man from Sanders County died in a Missoula hospital Thursday morning after crashing his all-terrain vehicle Wednesday near Taft.
Mineral County Sheriff and coroner Tom Bauer identified the victim as Glenn E. Smith of Trout Creek.
Trooper Steve Gaston of the Montana Highway Patrol said Smith was riding with two Noxon men and his son, also from Trout Creek, when he hit a rock on a Forest Service road a couple of miles north of Interstate 90.
“He went up an embankment, fell off the ATV, rolled down across the road and hit his head on a rock,” Gaston said.
The man was not wearing a helmet, and speed and alcohol may have been factors in the crash, which happened shortly before 5 p.m.
The West End Volunteer Fire Department and Quick Response Unit responded. Gaston said the victim was initially “a bit combative” with medics.
He was transported by ambulance to Mineral Community Hospital in Superior, then airlifted to St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, where he passed away from apparent head trauma.
The man became the 101st victim on Montana public roads this year.
It was the second fatality in Mineral County in less than a week. On July 22, Julie Ilene Martinez, 54, of Victor, was killed and three young children were hospitalized after a one-car rollover on I-90 between St. Regis and Superior.