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Elizabeth Cornes, 10, died on February 2007 from a 4-wheeled ATV accident. Elizabeth's neighbor found her on the ground unconscious and bleeding from her head, ears, nose and eyes after riding through fields in Louisiana. She had suffered no broken bones and the ATV had not flipped over; Elizabeth's mother Leslie Cornes suspects that Elizabeth and the neighbor were racing when Elizabeth lost control and hit her head on the metal rack in the rear of the vehicle. "We blame ourselves greatly as she should have never been on something as big and powerful as that," said Leslie Cornes. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that under no circumstances should children under the age of 16 operate ATVs due to "immature judgment and motor skills."
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"The pain has never gone away for me and my family, I sit at the cemetery everyday begging God to give Mikey back to me," said Alexis Kingkiner, the mother of Mikey Brugger, who died while riding his ATV. Mikey was 13 years old when he hit a utility pole on July 9, 2005 while vacationing in Pennsylvania's Pocono mountains. Kingkiner is a member of the advocacy group Concerned Families for ATV Safety, which works to raise public awareness of ATV safety and promote laws that would keep kids under 16 off ATVs and require licenses to drive ATVs.
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On May 6, 2002, 11-year-old Kyle Rabe was traveling on an ATV in Oregon when he lost control while taking a short cut down a slope. Rabe was pinned to the ground by the ATV and was unable to breathe. When a friend and father finally lifted the ATV off Rabe, he could not be resuscitated. Kyle was a careful driver who wore the proper protection. As a result of Kyle's death, his mother Sue helped form Concerned Families for ATV Safety in 2005.
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While taking a guided tour in a Costa Rican resort town in 2009 with her family, Brooke Scalise, 12, plunged off a 200-foot cliff after failing to complete a sharp turn at an accelerated speed.
The tour was allegedly led by minors moving at high speed along a cliff-top trail without guardrails. The tour company was allegedly operating in violation of Costa Rican law by allowing drivers under 16 to operate ATVs.
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Brooke Scalise died at the base of this cliff in Flamingo, Costa Rica in 2009.
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After the death of her daughter, Brooke Scalise, 12, in an ATV accident in Costa Rica, Jennifer Scalise has tried, so far unsuccessfully, to pursue the tour operator legally. Costa Rican regulations do not permit riders under 16 on ATVs. The tour company is still in operation. "I hope that I can eventually find some peace by having some accountability to the tour guide," said Scalise during an ABC interview. "By sharing my nightmare, if that saves anybody's life it was worth every bit of it."
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Multiple riders on a single ATV on a Costa Rican road in 2009.
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Will Ryder McCrary was only three years old when he was thrown from his ATV on June 21, 2009. McCrary suffered a punctured lung, broken ribs and swelling in his head. "After his father had made the decision to put him on the 4-wheeler they then turned to me to make the decision to turn my baby off life support because he was brain dead," said McCrary's mother, Melissa Cooper.
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Despite 10 years of ATV experience and even surviving an accident at the age of three, Tyler Lumpkin, 13, died August 6, 2004 when his ATV rolled on top of him. A study conducted by University of Utah neurosurgeons found that rollovers were the most frequent type of ATV accident, followed by collisions with other vehicles and inanimate objects. The study claimed that children may be at additional risk for rollovers on turns because of their relative lack of weight and strength, and because ATVs have a high center of gravity and short wheelbase.
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Carrie Nolan lost her two sons, Austin, 9, and Justin, 7, on August 23, 2005, when they were struck by a vehicle while riding adult-sized ATVs across a major highway in rural Southwest Wisconsin. Nolan had repeatedly reprimanded her sons for operating ATVs well beyond their size and instructed workers on their family farm to keep the boys away from the ATVs. In spite of her warnings, the boys found the key for the vehicles and rode the ATVs. In 2008, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were an estimated 135, 100 estimated ATV-related emergency room visits. Children younger than 16 accounted for 28 percent of the visits.
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Sean Kearney died from injuries he sustained while riding on an adult-sized ATV on October 27, 2006. "While most people were choosing Halloween costumes, we were planning a funeral for an eight-year-old son," write Sean's parents, Mark and Katie.
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Jose Frias was driving an ATV and carrying his six-year-old son as a passenger on August 21, 2009, when the vehicle crashed, killing his son. Originally charged with a felony after the incident, Frias, 42, pled no contest to a misdemeanor of driving under the influence and causing injury and was sentenced to six months in jail. The Azusa, California resident and his son were not wearing safety equipment or helmets. Frias's son suffocated under the weight of the 2001 Polaris ATV, according to an autopsy, and Frias suffered four broken ribs.
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On September 27, 2008, Zarse Good, 13, died when he lost control of the 600-pound ATV he was operating, which was capable of speeds up to 60 mph. Good had no prior ATV experience and wore neither a helmet nor chest gear. Good's mother said she was unaware that her son had been allowed to ride the ATV.
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Sara Rose Hennarichs crashed into a tree on September 13, 2003, while driving a friend's adult-sized ATV on a narrow dirt road. The 13-year old girl was at a friend's house, and did not know how to operate an ATV.
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Knox died at the age of seven while riding a 4-wheeled ATV on May 29, 2007. The ATV crushed the boy's abdomen after he fell into a deep ditch while on vacation in Minnesota. "The worst mistake of our lives will be underestimating the danger of such a large and powerful machine," say his parents.
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All-terrain vehicles (ATVs) are as popular as ever, yet a new study from Nationwide Children's Hospital hopes to alert Americans about the dangers of ATVs — especially for children.
The study found that over the past 25 years, each day an average of 31 children were treated in U.S. emergency departments for ATV-related head and neck injuries. What's more, experts say and preliminary data show motor sports have become even more popular during the coronavirus epidemic.
“When you’re going 30 miles an hour and you hit a tree, you may not get a second chance. At that speed, with heavy machines like that, one mistake can be life-changing," Dr. Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, in Columbus, Ohio, and senior author of the study, said in a press release.
Kristen Almer knows this all too well: Her 11-year-old nephew died in an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) accident in 2013. She's since started a program promoting power sports safety to kids and parents.
On May 24, 2013, heading into Memorial Day weekend, Logan Almer, who lived with his father, mother and older brother in Minong, Wisconsin, got on his dad's ATV when no adults were around, Almer told TODAY.
He wasn't wearing a helmet or other protective gear and drove the vehicle toward the road. When he reached the road, he sharply turned because he knew not to drive the vehicle on pavement, but in the process, the vehicle flipped twice, crushing and killing Logan, Almer recalled.
"We don't know all the details, but it's pretty obvious that when Logan got on that machine, he had no idea what he got his hands on," she said. "It was horrifying, graphic, brutal, unbelievable situation."
Almer added that Logan's parents "were very concerned about the safety of their sons" and that the ATV key was usually frozen in a block of ice. At the time of Logan's death, his older brother, Hunter, was doing his online certification on ATV safety. Almer, herself, has worked in the motor sports industry for decades, which made the loss that much harder.
"I couldn’t believe this happened to my family," she said.
Between 1982 and 2018, there were at least 15,744 ATV-related fatalities, per the Consumer Product and Safety Commission. Of these, 3,353 were in children younger than 16, about 1 in 5. According to 2018 data from nonprofit the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, in 80-90% of deaths, the victims weren't wearing helmets.
According to a Consumer Federation of America report from 2018, July is the month with the most fatalities due to off-highway vehicles (OHVs), and the date with the highest number of fatalities is July 4.
The CPSC numbers do not include deaths related to other off-road vehicles, such as utility-terrain vehicles (UTVs), Almer stressed.
"People don't realize the danger that's afoot," she said. "People will say, 'We're not really concerned. Our kids don't ride.' ... The fact of the matter is kids who don't ride, they're the ones who are unfamiliar, who we need to get the message to."
Dr. Bret Nicks, a professor of emergency medicine at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and spokesperson for the American College of Emergency Physicians, told TODAY he's seen a recent increase in injuries and fatalities related to ATVs as their popularity grows.
"The power behind them ... is markedly greater than it was a decade ago," he said. "People have to recognize that ATVs are not toys. They're fun, and yes, they have very small ones, but they're incredibly heavy, and they have lots of power."
The most common ATV injuries in kids, according to Nicks, are from falling off without wearing proper gear.
"They have on flip-flops and shorts, maybe a tank top or a T-shirt, so we see lots of contusions, injuries to the skin," he said.
Arm, leg and ankle fractures are also common, he added, and one of the most dangerous situations occurs when kids are ejected from the vehicle at a great distance.
"Then we have concerns for head injury, multi-system trauma inside their chest, inside their belly, organ injuries and those types of things," he said.
With ATVs, "there are appropriate ways to go about having tremendous amounts of fun," Nicks said. But taking necessary precautions is crucial and possibly lifesaving.
Per the ATV Safety Institute:
Almer added that educating kids about the risks of power sports is one of the most effective ways to protect them.
"We don't throw our kids who don’t how to swim off a dock into 12-foot water. With power sports, it's the same thing," she said. "I don’t care whether you live in the city, you ride or you don’t ride — this is an issue that pertains to you.
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This story was originally published in July 2020.
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Maura Hohman is the senior health editor for TODAY.com and has been covering health and wellness news and trends since 2015, when she graduated from journalism school. Her byline has appeared on TODAY, NBC News, US News & World Report, People, Everyday Health, WhatToExpect.com, History.com and more. Her interests include women's health, racial health disparities, mental health and COVID-19.
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On the night of June 15-16, 2018, two ATVs carrying UrFU students collided on the road leading from the Luch sanatorium to the village of Verkhnyaya Sysert. Four people died in that car accident. Among them are the son of UBRD Vice President Alexei Ovchinnikov Sergey, Elizaveta Shchibrik, the daughter of Maxim Shchibrik, vice president of the Russian Copper Company holding, as well as their friends Ivan Svalov and Sofia Rusakova.
Only a girl named Catherine survived.
The car accident near Yekaterinburg received a great response. According to friends of the victims, that night the guys celebrated the receipt of UrFU diplomas. During the party, the idea came up to ride ATVs, which ended in a terrible accident. Versions were expressed that Sergei Ovchinnikov and Ivan Svalov, who got behind the wheel, allegedly deliberately drove towards each other, arguing who would turn away first. There were also suspicions that the students were drunk.
Proceedings over the accident lasted several months: they were conducted by employees of the Sysert police department, in whose jurisdiction the collision occurred. We are publishing the details of the investigation that we managed to learn from the security forces.
The accident occurred on a narrow road leading from the sanatorium "Luch" to the village of Verkhnyaya Sysert
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They refused to initiate a case on the fact of an accident.
The check showed that one of the guys taxied into the oncoming lane, grossly violating the rules of the road.
“There are signs of a crime under Art. 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Violation of the rules of the road and the operation of vehicles"). According to the results of the audit, initiation of a criminal case was denied on the basis of paragraph 4 of part 1 of Art. 24 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation in connection with the death of the suspect, ”the police said.
There were different versions of how strongly the students accelerated towards each other on the road. A photograph of a speedometer from one of the ATVs added fuel to the fire. It could be seen that the arrow froze at over 100 kilometers per hour. The police claim that in reality the impact occurred at a much lower speed. The first ATV before braking was moving at a speed of 41 km / h, and the second - no more than 39 km / h.
The same photo of the dashboard, where the needle froze at high speed
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The version of a deliberate race towards each other during the audit was not confirmed. In general, this is consistent with the story of the surviving girl, who immediately after the accident said that it was dark on the road and the drivers simply did not see each other.
After the accident, there were suggestions that recorders could have been installed on the ATVs, which would have clarified the picture of what happened. However, police said they did not have any video footage of the incident.
One of my friends got behind the wheel drunk, but the investigators came to the conclusion that he did not provoke the accident
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Perhaps the most important question in this story. Students celebrating graduation at a party might well have drunk alcohol. And, according to the investigation, it turned out to be so. We quote police officers:
“During the forensic chemical examination of the blood of the deceased driver of the first all-terrain vehicle, found guilty of the accident, no alcohols were found.
During a forensic chemical examination of the deceased driver of the second ATV, ethyl alcohol was found in a concentration of 1.1 ppm.
Paradox. It turns out that the sober driver caused the accident, and the drunk driver drove in his own lane and did not break the rules (except for the fact that he got behind the wheel in a strong intoxication).
Recall that, according to the surviving girl, Sergei Ovchinnikov and Ivan Svalov were driving. Since the investigators refused to name the participants in the accident, one can only guess which of the guys drove ATVs No. 1 and 2. It is only known that on the night of the accident, Sergey Ovchinnikov and Sofya Rusakova drove far ahead, and then turned around and rushed back towards their friends.
With all the evidence of what happened, this version could not be written off. Failure of the brakes or steering could also lead to trouble. But no - the examination showed that both ATVs were technically sound before the accident.
Ekaterina, the only survivor of the accident, was taken to the hospital. Neither she nor her friends bothered to wear helmets before the ATV ride. The survivor described in detail what happened that night.
According to Ekaterina, at about two o'clock in the morning someone offered to ride ATVs, which were in the country. The girl got on an all-terrain vehicle with a friend (Ivan Svalov. - Note ed .), which was driven by her friend (Elizaveta Shchibrik. - Note ed. .). Two other friends (Sergey Ovchinnikov and Sofya Rusakova) rode another ATV - the girl was a passenger, the guy got behind the wheel. At that time it was dark, the headlights were on. They drove towards the Luch sanatorium along an asphalt road. On the way, Ekaterina's friend asked her friend to let him drive. She stopped to make way for him. At this time, another ATV overtook them and drove ahead.
The guy got behind the wheel, his friend got behind him, and Ekaterina got behind her, they drove off.
At what speed they were driving, the girl did not know, as she hid her face from the wind behind the back of her classmate. Some time later, a collision occurred, as a result of which she lost consciousness. How and under what circumstances the collision occurred, she does not remember. She woke up already lying in the grass, and there were ATVs on the road. The guys showed no signs of life, it was difficult for her to move, she was in pain. She called her father, after which an ambulance arrived, after a while, an ambulance arrived along with police officers, and she was taken to the hospital.
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MARIUPOL, May 30 - RIA Novosti. During the eight years of the armed conflict on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, 117 children died, 35 of them since February of this year, Dmitry Kalashnikov, head of the Republican Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination of the Ministry of Health of the DPR, told RIA Novosti. "The figure is very sad. According to my information, on the territory of the DPR and Donetsk region, 117 children have died over the years, these are children under 18. So, out of 117 children, 35 have died since February of this year," Kalashnikov complained. According to him, most of the minors who died this year were victims of unexploded ammunition in April-May. The interlocutor of the agency explained that with a decrease in the intensity of hostilities, children began to come out of hiding more often and find grenades, unused grenade launchers and other types of weapons.
"It is probably more tragic that the children died not as a result of shelling, but as a result of the fact that they find these post-war "artifacts," Kalashnikov said. Russia has been conducting a military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine since February 24. Vladimir Putin called it the goal of "protecting people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years." , by the end of March, the Russian army had completed the main tasks of the first stage - significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine.0003
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MARIUPOL, May 30 - RIA Novosti. Over the eight years of the armed conflict on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, 117 children have died, 35 of them since February of this year, Dmitry Kalashnikov, head of the Republican Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination of the DPR Ministry of Health, told RIA Novosti.
"The figure is very sad. According to my data, 117 children have died in the DPR and the Donetsk region over the years, these are children under 18. So, out of 117 children, 35 have died since February of this year," Kalashnikov lamented.
According to him, most of the minors killed this year were victims of unexploded ordnance in April-May.
The interlocutor of the agency explained that with a decrease in the intensity of hostilities, children began to come out of hiding more often and find grenades, unused grenade launchers and other types of weapons.
"Probably more tragic that the children died not as a result of shelling, but as a result of the fact that they find these post-war "artifacts," Kalashnikov noted.
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Alexander Alekseevich and Vera Afanasievna Polkovnikov met their daughter Tatyana. The old people live in the village of Bolotnoye in the Luhansk People's Republic, now liberated. The war separated them from their daughter for eight years.
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This is Nikita Goldenenko from Mariupol. Until recently, when Mariupol was under the control of Ukraine and the Nazi "Azov", the boy could not communicate with his relatives living in Yenakiyevo, Donetsk. This photo captures the moment Nikita met his aunt Elena.
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This is little Lily. She was born during the war and never saw her great-grandparents. Lilia lived in the territory controlled by Kyiv, and her relatives lived in Donetsk. In the photo: Andrey Andreevich and Nadezhda Iosipovna swing their great-granddaughter on a swing in their garden for the first time.
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These are the Vorontsovs. Three Andrei Andreevich. Grandfather, father and grandson. They were also divided by the war. Now they met in Donetsk at the oldest Vorontsov.
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Ataman of the village of Kirovskaya Alexander Ogirin came to the village of Muratovo near Lugansk to visit his mother, whom he had not seen for eight years.
He was wounded while serving in the People's Militia of the LPR. Now Muratovo has been released.
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This is Pavel Chuprin, who came from Donetsk to Mariupol, liberated from the Nazis, to visit his mother Irina Grigoryevna Chuprina. She did not see her son for several years, because of her communication with him, she could be suspected of having links with the Donetsk militia.
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Larisa Kovalenko is originally from Mariupol, but has lived in Sevastopol and Moscow for the last eight years. Her mother Elena remained in Mariupol. This photo captures the moment of their meeting in Donetsk, in the evacuation. Larisa strokes her mother's hands. Mom survived, Mariupol was liberated.
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Rector of St. Nicholas Church in Stanitsa Luganskaya Father Aleksey Khrabrov met with his mother Elena Khrabrova and grandmother Galina Makogon in Rovenki. The father did not see his relatives for four years.
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Olga Glushchenko from the village of Ganusovka, LPR.
Until that day, she had not seen her Yura for eight years. The son stopped by to see her, the village is now under the control of the Luhansk Republic. In this photo, his mother escorts him back. Soldiers of the army of the DPR and LPR continue to liberate their land.
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Sophia inhales the scent of blueberries, given to her by her grandmother Lidia Petrovna, near her house in the village of Olkhovoe, Luhansk People's Republic. Sofia last saw her grandmother when she was very young, in 2015. Then the family was separated by the war.
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Little Samson saw his grandfather for the first time. Viktor Alexandrovich lives in the village of Luganskaya. In February 2022, the village was recaptured, it came under the control of the LPR.
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This is Irina, she hasn't seen her mother since 2015. Lidia Petrovna lives in the village of Olkhove, Luhansk People's Republic. Irina drove into the liberated territory to hug her mother.
They know that they will meet again - after the victory.
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Alexander Alekseevich and Vera Afanasyevna Polkovnikov met their daughter Tatyana. The old people live in the village of Bolotnoye in the Luhansk People's Republic, now liberated. The war separated them from their daughter for eight years.
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This is Nikita Goldenko from Mariupol. Until recently, when Mariupol was under the control of Ukraine and the Nazi "Azov", the boy could not communicate with his relatives living in Yenakiyevo, Donetsk. This photo captures the moment Nikita met his aunt Elena.
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This is a little Lily. She was born during the war and never saw her great-grandparents. Lilia lived in the territory controlled by Kyiv, and her relatives lived in Donetsk. In the photo: Andrey Andreevich and Nadezhda Iosipovna swing their great-granddaughter on a swing in their garden for the first time.
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These are the Vorontsovs.
Three Andrei Andreevich. Grandfather, father and grandson. They were also divided by the war. Now they met in Donetsk at the oldest Vorontsov.
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Ataman of the village of Kirovskaya Alexander Ogirin came to the village of Muratovo near Lugansk to visit his mother, whom he had not seen for eight years. He was wounded while serving in the People's Militia of the LPR. Now Muratovo has been released.
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This is Pavel Chuprin, who came from Donetsk to Mariupol, liberated from the Nazis, to visit his mother Irina Grigoryevna Chuprina. She did not see her son for several years, because of her communication with him, she could be suspected of having links with the Donetsk militia.
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Larisa Kovalenko is originally from Mariupol, but has lived in Sevastopol and Moscow for the last eight years. Her mother Elena remained in Mariupol. This photo captures the moment of their meeting in Donetsk, in the evacuation. Larisa strokes her mother's hands.
