JULY 23, 2023:
A 57 year old man from Canova man has been identified as the person who died after a one vehicle ATV accident July 14, 2023.
Preliminary crash information from the South Dakota Highway Patrol indicates John Zens was driving a 2018 Yamaha YFM700FWAD four-wheeler eastbound on 244th Street, a gravel road, just west of 429th Avenue about one mile east of Epiphany. The ATV was on the north side of the road and gradually entered the south ditch coming to rest in a cornfield. For an undetermined reason, the driver came off the ATV before it went into the ditch.
Zens was airlifted to Sanford in Sioux Falls with life threatening injuries. He succumbed to his injuries July 18. He was not wearing a helmet.
South Dakota’s Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.
The Highway Patrol is an agency of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.
JULY 19, 2023:
One person has died after a one vehicle ATV accident Friday morning (July 14, 2023) one mile east of Epiphany in Hanson County.
The person’s name has not been released.
Preliminary crash information from the South Dakota Highway Patrol indicates a 2018 Yamaha YFM700FWAD four-wheeler was traveling eastbound on 244th Street just west of 429th avenue about east of Epiphany. The ATV was on the north side of the road and gradually entered the south ditch coming to rest in a cornfield. For an undetermined reason, the 57-year-old male driver came off the ATV before it went into the ditch. He was airlifted to Sanford in Sioux Falls with life threatening injuries. He succumbed to his injuries yesterday (July 18). He was not wearing a helmet.
South Dakota’s Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.
The Highway Patrol is an agency of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.
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