Roxbury Child, 11, Killed In ATV Accident, Second ATV Death in CT This Week (updated 5 p.m.)

State Police are investigating the death of an 11-year-old who died in an ATV accident near Carriage Lane in Roxbury Thursday night, WFSB 3 TV reports. 

The Waterbury Republican-American reports the boy was supposed to return home by 3 p.m. but his body was found at 7:45 p.m. Several area Fire Department including those from Woodbury and Southbury assisted in the search. 

The victim is Joseph Awlasewicz, 11, of Southbury, the Republican-American reports. He was riding an ATV that went off the right shoulder and traveled down an embankment, the Republican-American reports.

This is the second ATV related death this week in Connecticut as Austin Peter Tautkus, 18, of Ellington, died Wednesday in an ATV accident in Suffield.