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Study: More children die in ATV accidents than bicycle accidents

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Tuesday, 07 August 2007

Children under the age of 16 are seven times more likely to ride bicycles than all-terrain vehicles, yet ATVs cause more deaths among youngsters than their peddling counterparts, according to a study released Tuesday.

Jim Helmkamp, who tracks ATV statistics as director of West Virginia University's Injury Control Research Center, found that on average, 171 children died each year across the country in ATV accidents between 2000 and 2004, compared to 157 deaths from bicycle crashes.

Full report: The Associated Press

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Matt said:

According to the CSPC, last year in South Carolina alone, 3 kids died on ATVs. Several hundred were injured. Mot were a)not wearing helmets, b) on way too big of a machine and c)on paved roads.

All no-nos. What happens when kids take off their helmets and ride on the freeway? They get hurt/killed, that's what.

784 bicyclists died on US roads in 2005. If you average it out, that's over 15 deaths per state per year, only on bicycles.

Why are bicycles not outlawed? Too many kids are getting killed on bikes.

Where's the outrage?

And what about pedestrians? over 120 died in So Carolina in 2006 alone!

OVER 120 PEOPLE DIED WALKING IN ONE STATE IN ONE YEAR!!

Where's the outrage?

That's 40 times more than died on ATVs.

Where's the outrage? Where's Cindi to stand up for 6 year old walkers?

BTW, regardless of what misinformation that article claims about the CPSC being in kahoots with the ATV industry, I can show you countless reports from them that are clearly against ATVs.

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