A Kodiak man and a teenager were killed during the Fourth of July holiday in separate SUV crashes on the island, and a man was injured in a third crash.

According to Kodiak Police Department spokesman Francis De La Fuente, police were notified around 6:00 p.m. Wednesday evening about an ATV crash with possible serious injuries on the side of Pillar Mountain. The area of ​​the crash is within the jurisdiction of the Alaska State Troopers, and according to an online statement, troopers found 65-year-old Lon White dead when his ATV overturned and landed on him.

White was a former Kodiak harbormaster and worked for the local Ports and Harbor Authority for more than 35 years.

At about 12:30 a.m. Thursday, police were notified of a missing 13-year-old boy near the Pasagshak State Recreation Site. A search revealed his body was pinned under his ATV and partially submerged in Rose Teed Lake on a trail north of the recreation site.

The child died at the scene and his body was taken to a forensic medicine facility for an autopsy.

According to the latest report from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were just over 30 fatal ATV crashes in Alaska between 2018 and 2020. Of the 2,448 ATV fatalities nationwide during the same period, 12% involved children under the age of 16.

About an hour after the boy was reported missing, at 2 a.m. Thursday, police responded to a report of an overturned quad bike further along Pasagshak Road at Surfer’s Beach.

Troopers say the injured man was found on the beach, about 500 yards from the road, with non-life-threatening injuries. The U.S. Coast Guard medeevaced the unidentified man to a hospital in Kodiak.

No further details were provided about the man or his condition.