An accident involving an ATV in northern Iowa’s Winnebago County, Monday night, claimed one life and resulted in injuries to another person. The Iowa State Patrol says a 2021 Can-Am ATV wad traveling through a field west of Forest City at around 10:10-p.m., when the vehicle went off of a terrace and began to roll. An occupant in the vehicle was ejected and died at the scene. He was identified as 49-year-old John Eugene West, of Forest City. The second occupant, 23-year-old Terence Jacob West, also of Forest City, suffered non-life threatening injuries. He was flown by LifeNet helicopter to Mercy Hospital in Mason City. Neither man was wearing a seat belt.
The Patrol said it wasn’t immediately clear who was driving the ATV. The accident remains under investigation.