Posted at 3:31 p.m., Thursday, November 17, 2005
Big Island man killed in ATV crash
Advertiser Staff
HONOKA'A, Hawai'i — A 64-year-old man died yesterday after crashing his all-terrain vehicle at his residence on Pikake Street in Honoka'a.Big Island police said the wreck happened a little after 3 p.m., when Ralph P. Schipa Jr. was riding a Yamaha Grizzly ATV up his gravel driveway and veered into a tree stump. He was pronounced dead at 4:30 p.m. at North Hawai'i Community Hospital.
Schipa's death was the second ATV-related fatality on the Big Island in less than a month. A 44-year-old Captain Cook woman died Oct. 22 under similar circumstances when the ATV she was operating ran off a private driveway and struck a tree.
