Authorities: Boy, 14, dies after ATV crash in Pike County
PETERSBURG, Ind. (AP) – Authorities say a 14-year-old boy has died following an ATV crash in southwestern Indiana.
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources says in a statement that Kaleb S. Poehlein of Winslow lost control the ATV he was riding on Tuesday in Pike County and hit a small ditch. The department says the ATV went airborne, hit a tree and landed upside down.
The DNR says the boy wasn’t wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.
Authorities say he had just passed another ATV operated by a 15-year-old Winslow boy at the time of the crash. That boy wasn’t hurt.