News by Wendi Lewis

ATVs claim 2

A report in the Appalachian News-Express, which serves Eastern Kentucky, reported accidents claimed two lives over the Memorial Day weekend. The newspaper said the death of a 12-year-old girl, Sarah Elizabeth Colley, and a 17-year-old girl, Brianna Castle, died in unrelated accidents.

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Report Outlines Danger

According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, ATVs killed more than 500 people in 2006 and of those victims nearly 1 on in 5 was a child. In addition to deaths, accidents involving such popular vehicles as the Polaris and the Yamaha Rhino sent 146,600 people to hospital emergency rooms that same year.

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