ATV Deaths Top 15,000 Threshold in Latest Government Report
Federal officials concede that the death toll is an undercount. Fatalities involving some trail machines are not included.
Consumer Protection
Tag: Off-Road Vehicles
Consumer Protection
Industries Turn to Bracewell Lobbyists to Scuttle Product Safety Rules
Business groups call on well-connected lobbying firm to help thwart unwanted federal standards. They have not been disappointed.
Consumer Protection
Safety Agency Nixes Tracking Deaths Involving ROVs
Despite mounting casualties from crashes of recreational off-highway vehicles, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has shot down a proposal to track injuries and deaths involving the popular trail machines.
Warning Wire
Courtroom Battles Loom Over Climate Change
The Ocean State v. Big Oil: Rhode Island, which has more than 400 miles of coastline, has become the first state in the country to sue oil companies for the cost of protecting itself from rising seas. More than a dozen cities and counties in four other states have filed similar [...]
Consumer Protection
Despite Hazards, Drive to Open Public Roads to Off-Road Vehicles in High Gear
Eric Carr/Alamy Stock Photo More than 14,000 people, including roughly 3,200 children age 15 or younger, have been killed in crashes of all-terrain vehicles since federal safety officials began keeping track in the early 1980s. Studies have shown (here and here) that over half of the deaths occur [...]
Consumer Protection
Off-Road Industry Looks to Congress to Put Brakes on Safety Regulation
Courtesy of Recreational Off-Highway Vehicle Association Manufacturers of off-road vehicles have mounted fierce resistance to proposed federal rules aimed at reducing rollover crashes that have killed hundreds of riders. After failing to persuade the Consumer Product Safety Commission to shelve the rules, the companies have turned to Congress [...]
Consumer Protection
Showdown With Industry Looms as Safety Rules for Off-Road Vehicles Advance
Courtesy of Recreational Off-Highway Vehicle Association. Rebuffing off-road vehicle manufacturers, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted today to move forward with rules aimed at preventing rollover crashes that have killed hundreds of riders. The rules would include minimum handling and stability standards for the popular trail machines [...]
Consumer Protection
Battling Safety Rules for Off-Road Vehicles, Industry Gets Boost From Senators
Courtesy of Recreational Off-Highway Vehicle Association. Manufacturers of off-road vehicles have enlisted the help of a dozen U.S. senators to try to block regulations intended to prevent rollover crashes that have killed hundreds of riders. In a letter to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the senators urged delaying a [...]
Public Health
Consumer Advocates Urge Banning ATVs From Roadways, Citing Crash Hazards
Photo courtesy Mike Macke Photography A leading consumer group is warning that the increasing use of all-terrain vehicles on the nation's roads poses a “growing public health crisis" and is calling for immediate action by U.S., state and local officials. “ATVs are not designed to be on roads,” said [...]
Public Health
Despite High Death Toll, Push Is On To Open More Public Roads to ATVs
Last Mother's Day, Jaret Graham, 14, climbed on the back of an all-terrain vehicle driven by his 12-year-old cousin. As they sped down a paved stretch of country road in west Texas, the 12-year-old lost control, went into a ditch and fell off the vehicle, injuring his leg. Jaret was [...]