PEIA 16-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man have died in separate vehicle crashes in western and central Prince Edward Island.16-year-old boy and 19-year-old man die in separate collisions, hours apartThinh Nguyen · CBC News · Posted: Jul 25, 2025 9:10 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour agoInvestigations are underway into two separate crashes in western and central Prince Edward Island that resulted in the deaths of two young men. (Ryan McLeod/CBC News)Two young males have died in separate vehicle crashes in western and central Prince Edward Island.On Thursday evening, a 16-year-old boy from Summerside died as a result of a single-vehicle ATV crash in western P.E.I.In a news release, P.E.I. RCMP said the incident happened around 7:30 p.m. when a side-by-side ATV with two people on board crashed in the Roseville area of western Prince County.West Prince RCMP responded along with Island EMS and the Miminegash Fire Department.The boy was pronounced dead at the scene. The other person, a 14-year-old girl, was taken to Prince County Hospital with serious injuries. Police said she remains in stable condition.Another fatal crash hours laterEarly Friday morning, a 19-year-old man from Cumberland, P.E.I., died in a single-vehicle crash in Hampshire.P.E.I. RCMP said a crash detection alert from a cell phone to 911 at about 3:30 a.m. alerted Queens District RCMP about the crash.”There were two passengers in the vehicle, a 16-year-old man who was transported to Queen Elizabeth Hospital with minor injuries and a 19-year-old man who was pronounced dead at the scene,” the RCMP said in a news release. Island EMS and the North River Fire Department also responded to the scene.Route 225 was closed for several hours as provincial highways and emergency personnel redirected traffic.In both incidents, the P.E.I. coroner’s office was called to the scene, and RCMP collision analysts are conducting separate ongoing investigations.
2 young males die in separate crashes in Prince Edward Island
