RCMP are reporting a 23-year-old man, who died, was out on a late night ride with two friends when he lost control of his ATV as he rounded a corner and was thrown from the machine.
The incident happened around 2 in the morning last Sunday along a logging road, located about half a kilometre from the intersection of South Forks Road and Nanaimo Lakes Road.
His friends, who were operating a side by side UTV, managed to carry him to the nearby road and called 911.
Attending Paramedics transported the injured man to a local hospital and a short time later he was airlifted to hospital in Vancouver but by 7 that morning, he was pronounced deceased.