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Another child was killed in an all-terrain vehicle rollover last weekend, this time a 6-year-old girl from Brownstown, a community in south central Indiana. According to the Tribune, a newspaper serving Jackson County, Indiana, the girl was a passenger on the back of a Honda 400 ATV that was driving up a hill behind her home. Indiana Conservation officer Nathan Berry, who is investigating the accident, said that the girl was wearing a helmet when the accident occurred.

“They were climbing a hill, fairly steep, and lost traction,” Berry told the Tribune. “As the vehicle began to roll backward, the 4-wheeler tipped over and fell on her,” he said.

Officers from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department and state conservation officers were the first to arrive at the scene, where they found the girl unconscious. They performed CPR on the victim until the ambulance emergency medical workers arrived.

The girl was transported to Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, but doctors were unable to revive her. She was pronounced dead at 5:56 p.m., about an hour and a half after the rollover was first reported.

Officer Berry told the Tribune that the number of ATV accidents and fatalities has jumped over the summer, but that he couldn’t say what was responsible for the increase.

The number of ATV-related injuries and deaths  has grown steadily in the last 10 years all over North America, but the problem has increased dramatically in the last couple of years especially.

“Proportionately, ATVs have grown in popularity, and the more people that own them the more accidents we’re going to have,” Officer Berry told the Tribune. “This summer we have had a lot of them, it seems. It’s just been a bad year for them,” he told the paper.

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