By Shelley Grieshop
sgrieshop@dailystandard.com A rural Fort Recovery teen was killed Tuesday night when the four-wheeler he was operating overturned on top of him and trapped him in a creek bed in northern Darke County.
Damon Klenke, 13, was taken by CareFlight helicopter from the scene to Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, where he was pronounced dead at 9 p.m. The child, an eighth-grader at Fort Recovery Middle School, is the son of Richard and Karen Klenke, 49 Lightsville-Northern, Fort Recovery, and Kimberly and Keith Will, 687 Darke-Mercer County Line Road.
Klenke was driving a Kawasaki 360 all-terrain vehicle in a wooded area on the southeast corner of Darke-Mercer County Line and Lightsville-Northern roads when the accident occurred, his mother said.
"He died in a perfect place; he really loved the woods. Hunting and trapping were his favorite things," his mother said. "He was going to see where he wanted to set traps for next season." A rural Fort Recovery teen was killed Tuesday night when the four-wheeler he was operating overturned on top of him and trapped him in a creek bed in northern Darke County.
Damon Klenke, 13, was taken by CareFlight helicopter from the scene to Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, where he was pronounced dead at 9 p.m. The child, an eighth-grader at Fort Recovery Middle School, is the son of Richard and Karen Klenke, 49 Lightsville-Northern, Fort Recovery, and Kimberly and Keith Will, 687 Darke-Mercer County Line Road.
Klenke was driving a Kawasaki 360 all-terrain vehicle in a wooded area on the southeast corner of Darke-Mercer County Line and Lightsville-Northern roads when the accident occurred, his mother said.
"He died in a perfect place; he really loved the woods. Hunting and trapping were his favorite things," his mother said. "He was going to see where he wanted to set traps for next season."
Family members became concerned when the boy left his father's house and didn't return for more than an hour. A relative went searching and found the teen trapped underneath the ATV and not |
