Memorial Day weekend is among the deadliest times for all-terrain vehicle riders, with 27 fatalities recorded over the holiday last year, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warns.
ATV-related deaths from March to April spike an average of 30 percent for children younger than 16 and 88 percent for adults, according to the CPSC. From 2003 to 2005, ATV-related deaths climbed each month during the spring and into the summer, peaking in July, when an average of 23 children and 87 adults were killed.
More than 10,000 people have died in ATV crashes since the 1980s, FairWarning reported in March. More than 2,500 deaths and hundreds of thousands of injuries involved kids under 16.
Are you just making a point about ATV related deaths without doing something constructive like cautioning potential riders to be safe and educate themselves about riding ATVs? I mean, if you’re truly interested in “fair warning”, I suggest you do so. (Key word being “fair”).
In case you didn’t know, ATV accidents are way down the list of causes of death. The rate of injury and death is also going down every year.
Car crashes, falls, poisoning, drowning, smoke/fire/flames, RIDING BICYCLES, all have more deaths a year than ATV accidents.