Nova Scotia man dies after losing control of ATV, ends up in ditch: police

A 59-year-old man has died in an ATV crash in rural Cape Breton Saturday evening.

In a release Monday, the RCMP said officers in Inverness County responded to a report of an off-road vehicle crash on MacIntyre Mountain Road in Glenora around 7:20 p.m.

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“RCMP officers learned that the ATV had been travelling south on MacIntyre Rd. and attempted to turn around to head north, when the driver lost control,” the release said. “The ATV came to rest in a ditch.”

The ATV driver, a 59-year-old man from Judique, was pronounced dead at the scene.

This was the first of two fatal crashes involving off-road vehicles over the weekend.

On Sunday, the RCMP said a 10-year-old child was killed in the Canaan area after the youth ATV they were driving went in a ditch.