On 5-8-16 at 7:53 p.m., deputies with the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a report of an unresponsive male in a creek.
Upon arrival, they discovered the driver had been operating a 1999 Honda Rincon ATV pulling a sprayer along a creek bank. The unit rolled over and the driver was thrown from the vehicle and was found in the water. Upon investigation it is believed the accident occurred at approximately 6:30 p.m. The driver was located by a passerby who spotted the vehicle in the field.
The male driver has been identified as Jackie Linn Peters, age 66 of rural Grand Mound and was pronounced dead at the scene. Deputies were assisted at the scene by Welton First Responders, Genesis Ambulance – DeWitt, and the Clinton Co. Medical Examiner’s Office.
The accident remains under investigation.
