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Saturday, June 7, 2014Area:
Des Moines-Ames, IAThe Department of Natural Resources says a Des Moines woman was seriously injured when the all-terrain vehicle she was riding rolled over.
The DNR says the crash happened Sunday afternoon at Bluff Creek park southwest of Oskaloosa when 36-year-old Roberta Curry apparently hit a tree root, causing the four-wheel vehicle she was riding to turn sharply and roll over.
Curry was wearing a helmet, but it came off after the impact.
She was flown to Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.
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Sunday, April 20, 2014Area:
Savannah, GAAuthorities say a 30-year-old Hinesville man died in an all-terrain-vehicle wreck.
Police say Dwayne Cornell Chapman was riding an ATV in Walthourville just after 6:30 p.m. Sunday when he lost control and struck a tree.
Police say Chapman wasn’t wearing a helmet and suffered a head injury when he was thrown from the ATV.
Chapman was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Saturday, February 22, 2014Area:
Ft. Myers-Naples, FLTwo children have serious injuries after crashing their all-terrain vehicle in southwest Florida.
According to Florida Highway Patrol, 9-year-old Angela Wright was driving the ATV when it crashed Sunday afternoon in Lehigh Acres.
Troopers say the ATV flipped over as it approached a telephone pole in a grassy area.
According to a crash report, both the girl and her 16-year-old passenger Kyle Pilgrim were thrown off the ATV in the crash. Troopers say the teenager struck the telephone pole after being ejected, and the ATV struck the 9-year-old after she was thrown off.
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Thursday, February 6, 2014Area:
Portland-Auburn, METhree people, including a 6-year-old boy, escaped serious injury when the all-terrain vehicle they were on broke through the ice of China Lake.
The operator of the ATV, Lucas Cole of Benton, was trapped in the water for about five minutes and suffered hypothermia and frostbite.
The 25-year-old Cole stated that he went under the water three times before his friend, Donald Cowles, pulled him free.
Cowles threw his 6-year-old nephew to safety first.
All three were treated at the hospital.