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Phoenix police are looking for an ATV rider who fled the scene of a fatal dirt bike accident in Phoenix on Tuesday. The vehicles collided in the desert near the 25,000 block of North 57th Street around 5 p.m. The rider of the dirt bike, Frisco Davidson-Spurs Yankolovich, 20, was rushed to a local hospital, where he died of his injuries, said a Phoenix Police Sgt. The rider of the quad stopped and looked at the victim, then left the scene, police said. Police said there are no signs of the ATV rider.

A Jefferson County sheriff's deputy is fighting for his life after a Tuesday-night ATV crash. Deputy Brad Perry was listed in critical condition at UAB Hospital Wednesday afternoon, according to a hospital spokesman. Perry is a youth services investigator in the Bessemer Cutoff. He and a female deputy were off duty and riding an ATV on a mine road off Mud Creek Road when the ATV hit a hole or ditch and flipped, a Jefferson County sheriff's said. Perry suffered a head injury, and has not regained consciousness since the accident. The female deputy was not hurt.

A Lacey police officer has died of injuries sustained in an all-terrain vehicle crash this month. Officer Steve Brooks died Thursday at Providence St. Peter Hospital.

A Deming man was killed in an ATV crash on a gravel road in woods north of the Mount Baker Highway. The Bellingham Herald reports it's not clear when the crash occurred but the body of 45-year-old Scott Allen Monaghan was found Monday morning. The Washington State Patrol says it appears he drove around a corner too fast. The ATV hit a tree stump and crashed down a 20-foot embankment.