ASHDOWN — Authorities in Little River County say a 62-year-old man has died as the result of an all-terrain vehicle accident.
Sheriff Danny Russell says Ed Lansdell appeared to have drowned after he drove his ATV into a pond on Sunday night.
The Texarkana Gazette reports the four-wheeler was found overturned in the water and Lansdell’s body was nearby.
Lansdell’s family called deputies after Lansdell didn’t return after dark on Sunday. Lansdell was pronounced dead at about 2 a.m. Monday.
Russell says there is no indication the death was anything but an accident and that no autopsy was ordered.
The death was the second ATV fatality of the weekend. A Washington County man was killed when his ATV went off a road and plunged 125 feet to a creek bed.