
MADISON COUNTY, Idaho - A champion snowmobiler from Teton, ID, was killed Tuesday when he hit a minivan driving across Moody Highway in Madison County.
According to a press release from the Madison County Sheriff's Office Rick Ward, 47, of Teton was driving west on the Moody Hwy. when the driver of a minivan was crossing the road. The sheriff's office says the male juvenile stopped at the intersection of South Teton and the Moody Hwy. before he continued across the street. That's when Ward crashed into the van.
The van's driver was taken to Madison Memorial Hospital. Ward was flown to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
Ward was an 18 time world champion of hillclimb snowmobile racing. He was also a member of the Rocky Mountain Snowmobile Hillclimb Association.
Our Prayers and thoughts are with the family he leaves behind. Rick will be missed greatly by all who had the honor of knowing this great man.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday September 5, 2009 at the Sugar City LDS Stake Center (315 East 3rd South) with Bishop Blair Poulsen officiating. The family will receive friends Friday at the Flamm Funeral Home in Rexburg from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday at the stake center from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. prior to services. Interment will be in the Teton-Newdale Cemetery.