UPDATE: Couple found dead after ATV goes over embankment off Oyama Lake Road

LAKE COUNTRY – Two people have been found dead after an ATV crash off Oyama Road in Lake Country.

RCMP were called out to look for the couple at 12:30 p.m. Friday afternoon when the pair had not returned from their back country excursion the night before.

They were riding an ATV, which was found just after 2 p.m. by Search and Rescue, 50 feet down a steep embankment off Oyama Road.

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“One of the instructions to our search team was to look along sides of the roads for any tracks that lead off the road, ” explains Rob Braun, part of the search team that found the bodies, “It didn’t take much. Sure enough we came up the road and we see a set of tracks the right width for a quad. We look over the embankment and we can see the quad down there.”

While police are still investigating the accident, it appears the vehicle failed to negotiate a curve in the road.

No names have been released.