The lone operator of the ATV had not been wearing a helmet at the time of the collision, the OPP said

A 59-year-old Nepean resident is dead after an ATV crashed in Addington Highlands on Tuesday.
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Officers from the Lennox and Addington County Ontario Provincial Police detachment, as well as Lennox and Addington paramedics, were called to the scene of the single-vehicle collision on Deer Rock Lake Road just before 5 p.m. on Oct. 13.
The lone operator of the ATV had not been wearing a helmet at the time of the collision, the OPP said in a news release Wednesday.
They were pronounced dead after being transported to hospital.
Addington Highlands is about 160 kilometres west of Ottawa.
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