A Hope man died Sunday in a farm utility vehicle accident.

Mark Case, 62, died of massive blunt force trauma to the head resulting in a skull fracture. The Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Office says Case fell while riding in the back cargo area of a two-seater farm utility vehicle.

Case died of massive blunt force trauma to the head resulting in a skull fracture. His death was ruled accidental.

Case was the former Bartholomew County Animal Control Officer. He had just retired on July 14.

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