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Rhino rollover accident kills Victorville man
In Victorville, Calif., a 56-year-old man died when his 2008 Yamaha Rhino ran off the road.
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Community grieves girls’ death
In the midst of Southern Trails in the Lewisburg area, flowers rest where two friends named Emily Bates and Lauren Dilworth died in a Yamaha Rhino accident. According to the DeSoto Times, many people were alarmed after their deaths.
Girls die in yamaha rhino accident
October 18 marks two more deaths involving Yamaha Rhinos. According to DeSoto Times, two 11-year-old girls, named Lauren Dilworth and Emily Bates, were not wearing protective gear or seat belts, which were installed in the vehicle, when the 2005 ATV overturned and pinned the two girls’ bodies.
Family dedicates Web site to daughter killed in Rhino rollover
Ellie Sand’s warm smiles appear to lift off the photo montage on the Web site made in her memory. She was a determined girl, who did well at most anything she tried – dancing, tennis, horseback riding, even riding her dirt bike. But her strong will was not enough to keep her alive after the Yamaha Rhino she was riding in tipped over and crushed her small body.
child killed in Rhino rollover
A Wisconsin family is picking up the pieces after a tragic weekend, when 3-year-old Andrew M. Bahl was killed in a Yamaha Rhino rollover accident. The boy was a passenger on a vehicle driven by his father, Bradley J. Bahl, age 29.
New York boy saves father in rollover
An 11-year-old boy in New York state was honored recently for his heroic action in a Yamaha Rhino rollover accident, which Keesville Volunteer Fire Department personnel credit with saving his father’s life. The boy, Ryan Mills, pulled his dad, Albert, from under the 2,000-pound recreational vehicle. The Rhino flipped during a turn and pinned the man’s leg underneath, badly crushing it. The boy then ran for home, drove a large pickup truck back to the accident scene and drove his father home, where emergency personnel were able to reach him.
ATVs claim 2
A report in the Appalachian News-Express, which serves Eastern Kentucky, reported ATV 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 ATV accidents.
ATV Safety Concerns
Consumer Safety Groups Concerned About Growing Danger of ATV Accidents Resulting in Serious Injury and Death
The issue of ATV safety has become a growing concern nationwide. In November 2007, Consumer Reports published findings of a five-year study comparing the prevalence of ATV and bicycle crashes from 2000-2004, noting that “hospitalizations from ATV incidents are growing at a markedly higher rate than those caused by bicycle injures even though there are far more bicycle owners.” (source: www.blogs.consumerreports.org) The study was funded by the Concerned Families for ATV Safety and the Arabella Legacy Fund, a private charitable organization that also supports the Responsible Trails Alliance.
In 2005, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted unanimously to issue an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) pertaining to ATVs. The ANPR was the first step in a broad and comprehensive review of all existing and potential ATV safety rules and regulations. A Briefing Package resulting from the ATV Safety Review was presented to the Commission by CPSC staff in May 2006.
Key recommendations include the proposal, under the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA), a consumer product safety standard for ATVs intended for use by adults and a ban on three-wheeled ATVS intended for use by adults. The staff also recommends that the Commission propose, under authority of the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA), a standard for ATVs intended for use by youths. This would result in a ban on youth ATVs that do not comply with the standard, including all three-wheeled youth ATVs. Additionally, CPSC staff recommends that the Commission approve a web site devoted to safety of ATVs, and related information.
Results of the ATV study and recommendations are still under review by the CPSC, with Commissioner Thomas Moore sending follow-up questions to the ATV Safety Review committee in June 2006 and receiving response in July 2006. These documents are available at www.cpsc.gov.
Dec. 23, 2007, The Washington Post published a story about Robin Ingle’s experience in ATV research at the CPSC. From 1998-2006, Ingle served as a statistician in the agency’s Directorate for Epidemiology. Ingle says that one of her first projects was to generate statistics on injuries and deaths associated with all-terrain vehicles. Her research was included in the CPSC’s January 2005 report.
Ingle says, “In the 1990s, the [ATV] industry had been bound by strict regulatory agreements with CPSC, but they had expired in 1998. Since then, the deaths and injuries have skyrocketed: In 1999, an estimated 536 people died on ATVs. By 2004 that number had climbed to 767. If current trends continue, the number of ATV deaths will soon exceed 900. In 2005, U.S. emergency rooms treated an estimated 136,700 ATV-related injuries. Last year they treated even more. A quarter to a third of the dead and injured were children.” (robin.ingle@yahoo.com)
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 ATV deaths, accidents involving such popular vehicles as the Polaris ATV and the Yamaha Rhino ATV sent 146,600 people to hospital emergency rooms that same year.
Yamaha Rhino Rollover
serious injury and death have resulted from rollover accidents involving the Yamaha Rhino
Yamaha Rhino, a popular all terrain vehicle (ATV) manufactured by Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., is the subject of legal scrutiny after cases of serious injury and death have resulted from rollover accidents involving the vehicle. The Rhino has been in production since 2003.
Attorneys at Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., are currently evaluating claims against Yamaha Motor Corporation on behalf of people who suffered serious injury in a Yamaha Rhino ATV accident, or whose loved ones were injured or killed in these serious crashes.
Pending claims allege that design defects make the Rhino fundamentally unstable. Information on the company’s web site, www.yamaha-motor.com and in the Yamaha Rhino Owner’s Manual acknowledges that “abrupt maneuvers or aggressive driving have caused rollovers - even on flat, open areas.”
A Yamaha Rhino safety bulletin was issued to Rhino owners in August 2007 advising that vehicles could be returned to Yamaha dealers for installation of new equipment - doors and passenger handholds - at no cost to owners, to improve vehicle safety. Yamaha recommended that Rhino owners have the doors and handholds installed.
Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., Customer Support Group, followed up with a letter to Rhino Owners in September 2006 urging safe operation, warning of risk of tip over or rollover under “certain conditions” and providing instructions for avoiding / correcting a tip over and safe operator / passenger conduct in the event of a tip over / rollover. Warning labels for attachment on the Rhino passenger enclosure were enclosed with the letter.
According to the Yamaha Motor Corporation web site, the 2007 Yamaha Rhino Owner’s Manual was updated to include the new doors and handholds, and including a note that these modifications were available at no charge to vehicle owners. Rhino owners were provided a supplemental Guide to Genuine Yamaha Doors/Handholds and Rhino Occupant Protection, as well as a new on-product label promoting awareness of the new products and acknowledging dangers of rollover. Dealers installing doors and passenger handholds were instructed to attach the new on-product label to the vehicle’s dashboard.
Doors and passenger handholds are standard on 2008 models of the Yamaha Rhino, according to Yamaha Motor Corporation’s customer service line. Customer service recommends that anyone purchasing a used Yamaha Rhino (prior to the 2008 model) check to see that the doors and passenger handholds have been installed, and to see a local Yamaha authorized dealer to install these items if this has not been done.
Download a PDF of the updated 2007 Yamaha Rhino Owner’s Manual
http://www.yamaha-motor.com/outdoor/Rhino%20Owner%20Info/LIT_11626_20_64.pdf
Download a PDF of the 2007 supplemental Guide to Genuine Yamaha Doors / Handholds and Rhino Occupant Protection
http://www.yamaha-motor.com/outdoor/Rhino%20Owner%20Info/rhino_guide_supplement.pdf
Download a PDF of the 2007 on-product label for the Yamaha Rhino
http://www.yamaha-motor.com/outdoor/Rhino%20Owner%20Info/SERIGRAPH_sticker_01.pdf
