Post by biggame on Sept 25, 2007 10:49:03 GMT -4
Hunter killed in ATV crash
By DAN ARSENAULT Staff Reporter | 4:45 AM
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One man was killed and another seriously injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident Monday in northern Cape Breton.
RCMP officers were called at 11:20 a.m. to a trail in the Aspy Bay area north of Ingonish, where the ATV had crashed.
Two injured people were taken to Buchanan Memorial Hospital in Neils Harbour, but one was pronounced dead on arrival. The surviving man’s condition is not considered critical. No names were released.
Cpl. Ken Wallis of the Victoria County-Ingonish Beach RCMP detachment said both men were in the area moose hunting and were not from Cape Breton. The victim was in his late 50s and the injured man is roughly the same age, Cpl. Wallis said.
"There were a couple of witnesses that actually saw the accident," he said late Monday afternoon.
Cpl. Wallis said the men were preparing to hunt and had driven down from a higher elevation to get some warmer clothes.
The accident happened on a trail behind Sandra Curtis’s house.
"It’s just behind here, behind our home, but I’m afraid I don’t know anything about it," said Ms. Curtis, who lives on Bay St. Lawrence Road.
The trail, she said, "goes right up on top of the mountains, up on the moose trails."
Moose-hunting guide Theodore Fricker lives nearby and his 10-hectare property backs on the Polletts Cove-Aspy Fault Wilderness Area, which covers all of North Mountain.
"I was advised for you to contact the RCMP in Ingonish Beach," Mr. Fricker said when contacted by phone Monday.
He would only say that he didn’t witness the accident.
Investigators think they might know the cause of the crash, Cpl. Wallis said, but "it is hinging on an inspection of the vehicle."
"I don’t believe the weather conditions were any type of a factor at this point."
Earlier this month, an ATV crash in New Germany, Lunenburg County, killed 18-year-old Luke Meisner and injured 21-year-old Tommy Eagles. At the time, RCMP suspected mechanical failure caused the accident.
By DAN ARSENAULT Staff Reporter | 4:45 AM
ADVERTISEMENT
One man was killed and another seriously injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident Monday in northern Cape Breton.
RCMP officers were called at 11:20 a.m. to a trail in the Aspy Bay area north of Ingonish, where the ATV had crashed.
Two injured people were taken to Buchanan Memorial Hospital in Neils Harbour, but one was pronounced dead on arrival. The surviving man’s condition is not considered critical. No names were released.
Cpl. Ken Wallis of the Victoria County-Ingonish Beach RCMP detachment said both men were in the area moose hunting and were not from Cape Breton. The victim was in his late 50s and the injured man is roughly the same age, Cpl. Wallis said.
"There were a couple of witnesses that actually saw the accident," he said late Monday afternoon.
Cpl. Wallis said the men were preparing to hunt and had driven down from a higher elevation to get some warmer clothes.
The accident happened on a trail behind Sandra Curtis’s house.
"It’s just behind here, behind our home, but I’m afraid I don’t know anything about it," said Ms. Curtis, who lives on Bay St. Lawrence Road.
The trail, she said, "goes right up on top of the mountains, up on the moose trails."
Moose-hunting guide Theodore Fricker lives nearby and his 10-hectare property backs on the Polletts Cove-Aspy Fault Wilderness Area, which covers all of North Mountain.
"I was advised for you to contact the RCMP in Ingonish Beach," Mr. Fricker said when contacted by phone Monday.
He would only say that he didn’t witness the accident.
Investigators think they might know the cause of the crash, Cpl. Wallis said, but "it is hinging on an inspection of the vehicle."
"I don’t believe the weather conditions were any type of a factor at this point."
Earlier this month, an ATV crash in New Germany, Lunenburg County, killed 18-year-old Luke Meisner and injured 21-year-old Tommy Eagles. At the time, RCMP suspected mechanical failure caused the accident.