Child Killed In UTV Accident

RIPON, Wis (WRPN)- Another child has been killed in a tragic accident in Columbia County in less than a week.

The Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center received a 911 call just before 4 pm Saturday afternoon reporting a UTV accident at a farm in the Town of Wyocena. A 12-year-old had rolled over the UTV and was trapped underneath the machine.

Deputies, Rio Fire and Rio EMS responded to the scene. Arriving deputies determined that the child was dead from their injuries.

This past Wednesday a four-year-old child was killed after falling off a piece of farm equipment in the Town of Marcellon. Names were not released in either incident.