News Tagged ‘traumatic brain injury

ATV rollover kills 22-year-old student pilot

pilot 2 (2)A 22-year-old student helicopter pilot was killed early Sunday morning when the all-terrain vehicle she was driving rolled over. Reports say that Aura Corina Dacin, who friends described as a free spirit, “wild child” and thrill seeker, was driving the at Oakland-Troy Airport in Troy, Michigan, when the rollover occurred. 

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3-year-old Alabama girl dies when ATV strikes a wire

atv trailAnother 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 with her grandfather, Arthur Lee Rivers, 43, and Isces Johnson, 5 years old, Monday evening when the accident occurred.

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Utah teenager injured on ATV urges others to wear helmets

Utah ATV crashAccording to the Utah Department of Health, “during the summer months (May through August), more children and young adults were hospitalized for injures (339) than were hospitalized for all forms of intentional injury (assault, gunshot, stabbing, etc. [224]).” One of those young adults, 19-year-old Morgan Olson, wants to use her own example to promote the importance of wearing a helmet when driving on or riding an all-terrain vehicle.

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ATV collision claims the life of North Carolina racing enthusiast

memorial for NC manOne of the most frustrating aspects of blogging about all-terrain vehicle rollovers and collisions is knowing that there are lots of good people out there right now enjoying their lives and planning their futures who won’t be here tomorrow – everyday people like 27-year-old Anthony Ritter of North Carolina, who died last week in an accident.

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First Yamaha Rhino lawsuit goes to trial

texas court roomA lawsuit against Motor Corporation and its subsidiaries, filed by the parents of a 13-year-old boy who was killed in a rollover accident, became the first of some 500 wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits to go to court in North America. Attorneys for had tried to force the lawsuit into arbitration, but the Ninth Court of Appeals of Texas rejected its petition.

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Parents of Yamaha Rhino victim happy about ‘recall’

rhino showroom 100x100On April 1, the day that Yamaha Motor Co. announced its “voluntary repair campaign” for its UTVs, John and Tammy Sand received a phone call from the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission thanking them for their efforts in raising awareness about the dangers of the off-road vehicles.

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