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A bill that would have encouraged ATV safety by setting age and passenger limits and requiring passengers to wear helmets died in Mississippi’s last legislative session. Now another child is dead and two others injured following an ATV accident in the Hebron Community, located about halfway between Jackson and Hattiesburg in the south-central portion of state.
The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission announced a recall of about 8,500 Polaris all-terrain vehicles for defects that may pose a crash hazard. According to the CPSC, Polaris Industries of Medina, Minn., has received 19 reports of incidents involving the recalled 2009 and 2010 model-year ATVs.
Christmas day may forever be tinged with sadness for the family and friends of 18-year-old Andy Case, a resident of Sidney, Kentucky, who died after losing control of the all-terrain vehicle he was driving.
A 6-year-old Oklahoma boy died Wednesday evening when he lost control of the all-terrain vehicle he was driving, sending the ATV into a deadly rollover. Reports from throughout the state say that the young victim, Daniel Brock Smith-Maynard of Sand Springs, Okla. was driving the ATV on a homemade dirt track on his grandfather’s property in Tulsa when the accident occurred.
Last weekend was a deadly one for two young women who lost their lives in separate all-terrain vehicle accidents. One of the accidents, involving a teenage girl, occurred in Jonesborough, Tennessee. The other accident involved a woman who had just celebrated her 21st birthday and occurred about 200 miles west in the community of Hope Mills, North Carolina. Both of the accidents happened on Sunday night.
A Georgia teenager died and another one was seriously injured Saturday night in an all-terrain vehicle crash. The accident occurred in the southern part of rural Chattooga County, situated just south of Chattanooga, Tenn. and east of Ft. Payne, Ala.
Another child has been killed in an all-terrain vehicle accident in Alabama. According to Mobile and Pensacola area press reports, 3-year old girl London Johnson was riding on an ATV with her grandfather, Arthur Lee Rivers, 43, and Isces Johnson, 5 years old, Monday evening when the accident occurred.
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.
A 48-year old man from Leadville, Colorado, was found unconscious and bleeding Tuesday after the all-terrain vehicle he was driving rolled about a mile and a half down the summit of Hagerman Pass in the Mt. Massive Wilderness Area near Aspen. According to the Aspen Times, a hunter called authorities from the top of the pass after finding Todd Shepherd lying unconscious on a road near the summit. The man is reported to have life threatening injuries, but the specific nature of his condition hasn’t been released.
An all-terrain vehicle accident has claimed the life of a 7-year-old boy from Troy, Illinois. Authorities investigating the accident say that Austin J. Henry was riding a Chinese-made ATV on his parents’ property when he apparently lost control of the vehicle.
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