At least six dead in a month: ATV crash claims another life on East Coast
BATHURST, N.B. — A 61-year-old ATV driver died in New Brunswick Monday night — becoming at least sixth person to die in an all terrain vehicle crash in Atlantic Canada in about a month.
Police say the man was speeding and driving on the road illegally when he blew past a stop sign and collided with an on-coming tractor trailer truck in Nicolas Denys, N.B.
“It’s a thing that unfortunately happens in northern New Brunswick far too often, because ATV drivers, they don’t stay on the trails all the time,” RCMP Sgt. Benoit Jolette said from Bathurst, N.B. “We regularly get complaints of ATVs on the road — weekly.”
It was the third ATV-related death in a week in the Atlantic region, and at least the sixth since July 29.