Indiana State Police say a man was killed in an ATV crash in St. Petersburg on Monday evening

A man died Monday evening in Petersburg, Indiana, after the all-terrain vehicle he was driving hit a ditch on a rural stretch of road in Pike County.

Indiana State Police are investigating a single-vehicle crash. The agency identified the victim as 73-year-old Gerald Russell.

According to a press release from State Police, the incident occurred Monday around 11:20 p.m. near the intersection of Cart Road and County Road 250 West. State police said Russell was driving a “Honda four-wheeler.”

“For unknown reasons, his vehicle left the road on the north side, hit a ditch and overturned several times,” the statement reads.

The Pike County Coroner’s Office pronounced Russell dead at the scene. An investigation by the ISP is ongoing.

Houston Harwood can be reached at [email protected].

This article originally appeared in the Evansville Courier & Press: Gerald Russell died in an ATV crash in Pike County