Boring man dies in ATV crash

By Jim Hart

The Sandy Post, Dec 22, 2008, Updated Oct 30, 2009

A 51-year-old Boring man died Saturday, Dec. 20, after crashing in the 15000 block of 362nd Drive, south of Sandy.

Gary L. Boyko was thrown from the ATV, not far from his home, according to Clackamas County Sheriff’s spokesperson Jim Strovink. Neighbors told sheriff’s investigators that it sounded like the ATV was traveling at a high rate of speed. Boyko was not wearing a helmet when he was thrown from the speeding ATV at about 1:47 p.m., Strovink said.

Neighbors told Sheriff’s deputies that the ATV’s engine was revving at a high rate of speed prior to the crash. When everything went silent, neighbors investigated and found Boyko’s body not far from the ATV crash scene. Then they called 9-1-1.

Sheriff’s investigators said Boyko apparently spun out in the heavy snow and was thrown from the vehicle.

Strovink said the man was catapulted into a fence made with railroad-tie posts.

“Clackamas County sheriff’s deputies investigating this apparent accident,” Strovink said, “indicate neighbors in the area witnessed this ATV traveling at a high rate of speed prior to the discovery of the deceased along the roadway. This ATV driver was reported to have been revving the engine at an accelerated rate prior to the tragic event.”

One of the sheriff’s crash investigators expressed the opinion, Strovink said, that this ATV, equipped with paddle-wheel tires, was traveling in the snow when it spun out for some undetermined reason and catapulted the driver off the roadway into something stationary, such as a fence post.

A Clackamas County deputy medical examiner recovered the body for forensic examination and reported that the cause of death was “blunt force trauma to the chest.”

Immediate family members have been notified, according to Strovink.

Also responding to the crash scene were Sandy police officers and Sandy Fire and Rescue medics.

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