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A 13-year-old Alabama girl died earlier this month when the Polaris ATV she was riding in rolled over. Emily Dunnam, a resident of Fairhope, Ala., had been visiting relatives in another part of town when the accident occurred. Her cousin was driving the ATV across a field to see some horses that belonged to a neighboring family. Authorities said that the driver could have turned too sharply, causing the vehicle to pitch. Dunnam hit her head when the ATV toppled. Family members tried unsuccessfully to revive her at the scene while waiting for emergency responders to arrive, but it was too late.

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A 6-year-old girl lost her life on Tuesday when the ATV she was a passenger in rolled over. According to the Edmonton Journal, the girl’s older stepsister was driving the ATV on a rural, private road about 15 kilometers southeast of Stettler, Canada, when the rollover occurred.

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The parents of a 13-year old boy who was killed in a Rhino accident scored a small victory this month when the Ninth Court of Appeals of Texas ruled their lawsuit against Yamaha could proceed to trial. Yamaha wanted the case to go to arbitration, but the court rejected its petition.

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The Associated Press reported the death of a 12-year-old boy who was apparently killed in an all-terrain vehicle accident on Friday, July 24. Police in Canaan, New Hampshire, are investigating the boy’s death and the circumstances that caused it.

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A family adventure in Costa Rica turned into a horrible nightmare earlier this month when Brooke Scalise, the 12-year-old daughter of Jennifer Scalise, lost control of her ATV and drove off the edge of a 260-foot cliff. The girl was on an ATV tour of Costa Rica’s scenic landscape with her family and friends when the accident occurred.

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A 27-year-old woman and her 5-year-old son have been released from the hospital after being injured when the ATV they were riding in rolled over. According to the Bangor Daily News, Janelle Grant of Island Falls, Maine, broke her arm in the rollover accident. Her son received deep cuts on his head that required stitches. Both were airlifted to a hospital in Bangor, Maine, following the accident on Sunday.

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A 17-year-old Oklahoma boy who was critically injured in an ATV accident in 2005 is considered a walking miracle by everyone who knows him and has worked with him to recover from his injuries over the years. Aaron Bullock sustained a traumatic brain injury after hitting his head in the accident. He spent more than two months in a coma at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City. When Bullock emerged from the coma, doctors weren’t optimistic about his recovery.

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An ATV rollover has claimed the life of a 26-year-old Alabama man in Washington County, Alabama. Justin Threadgill, a resident of Bay Minette, Ala., was killed Saturday night while he and his brother, Jeremy Threadgill, were driving up the side of an incline that locals refer to as “the mountain.” According to the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, the ATV was halfway up the incline when it rolled over on top of the men.

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Zachary and Alex Rohloff, the 17-year-old twin sons of an upstate New York developer, died late last month when the all-terrain vehicles they were driving collided head-on. Authorities say the boys were driving up a hill in opposite directions and may not have seen each other when they crested. 16-year-old Emily Mohr, the girlfriend of Alex, was injured in the collision. She suffered from a broken arm and other relatively minor injuries and was released from the hospital on June 23, 2 days after the accident took place.

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21-year-old Jessica Lynne Braithwaite, a resident of Elkmont, Alabama, a community north of Huntsville near the Tennessee line, died last week after losing control of the all-terrain vehicle she was driving. Braithewaite’s ATV ran off the road and into a barbed wire fence. According to authorities, both Braithwaite and 26-year-old Jonathan Barnes, a passenger, were thrown from the vehicle. Braithewaite died at the scene while Barnes was airlifted to Huntsville Hospital, where he remains in serious condition in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.

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