Two group thrust connected an ATV toward a achromatic pickup truck.Riders thrust an ATV on a roadworthy successful Bethel. (Dean Swope/KYUK)

A Kodiak man and a teenage boy were killed complete nan Fourth of July vacation successful abstracted all-terrain conveyance crashes, arsenic a man was injured successful a 3rd crash.

According to Kodiak Police Department spokesperson Francis De La Fuente, constabulary were told astatine astir 6 p.m. Wednesday nighttime of an ATV mishap pinch a imaginable superior wounded connected nan backside of Pillar Mountain. The area of nan incident falls wrong Alaska State Troopers’ jurisdiction, and according to an online dispatch troopers recovered 65-year-old Lon White dormant aft his ATV rolled and landed connected apical of him.

White was a erstwhile Kodiak harbormaster, and worked pinch nan section Ports and Harbor Department for complete 35 years.

At astir 12:30 a.m. Thursday, troopers were notified of a missing 13-year-old boy adjacent nan Pasagshak State Recreation Site. A hunt recovered his assemblage pinned nether his ATV, partially submerged successful Lake Rose Teed disconnected a way northbound of nan recreation site.

The kid was pronounced dormant astatine nan segment and his assemblage was sent to nan authorities aesculapian examiner’s agency for an autopsy.

According to the latest report from nan U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Alaska had conscionable complete 30 fatal ATV incidents from 2018 done 2020. Of nan 2,448 off-highway conveyance deaths successful nan state during that aforesaid clip period, 12% of them progressive children nether nan property of 16.

About an hr aft nan boy was reported missing, troopers responded astatine astir 2 a.m. Thursday to an overturned side-by-side ATV farther down nan Pasagshak roadworthy connected Surfer’s Beach.

Troopers opportunity an injured man was recovered connected nan beach, astir 500 yards distant from nan road, pinch non-life threatening injuries. The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced nan unidentified man to a Kodiak-area hospital.

There were nary further specifications provided astir nan man aliases his condition.