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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.
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Friday, January 31, 2014Area:
Austin, TXA man is dead after an ATV accident in Marble Falls on Saturday.
Officials say a man in his early 30s was involved in an accident at Hidden Falls Adventure Park. He was driving around with his son and friends in a homemade ATV-type vehicle when he was involved in an accident.
Officials say the man was partially ejected from the ATV and it landed on his chest, pinning him under. When the Marble Falls Volunteer Fire Department arrived, they pronounced him dead at the scene. Firefighters say the man was not wearing a seatbelt.
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Saturday, January 25, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZA 7-year-old Mesa girl was hospitalized with severe head injuries after the all-terrain vehicle she was driving crashed into a block wall Sunday afternoon.
Mesa police said the crash happened about 3:40 p.m. in the area of Broadway Road and Longmore.
The girl was not wearing a helmet while on the ATV, which was built for a child, said a Mesa Fire Department spokesman said.
Officials said the girl was being taught by her father to ride the ATV.
The girl was taken to Maricopa Medical Center for treatment and reported in stable condition, according to police.
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Sunday, January 12, 2014Area:
Trenton-NJAuthorities say a northern New Jersey man was killed when the all-terrain vehicle he was driving struck a parked car.
Plainfield police stated that 21-year-old Piscataway resident Andrew Taylor was killed in the crash, which occurred around 8:15 p.m. Monday in the area of Central Avenue and Ninth Street.
Authorities say Taylor was operating the vehicle illegally and was not wearing a helmet. He was taken to a hospital, where he died a short time later.
No other injuries were reported in the accident, which remains under investigation.
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Friday, December 27, 201349-year-old Kyle Marc Aaron Matteson of Jensen Beach died Saturday after crashing the 1999 Yamaha ATV he was driving. Matteson was traveling northbound along the west side of the Florida East Coast Railroad's right of way in Jensen Beach. According to FHP, he steered the ATV sharply to the left and in doing so the vehicle overturned. Matteson was trapped underneath the vehicle. The time of the crash is unknown.
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Sunday, December 22, 2013Area:
Cincinnati, OHA southeastern Indiana man has died after his all-terrain vehicle overturned on his property.
Conservation officers say family members found 66-year-old Philip Glasgo of Guilford on Monday afternoon after he had not returned home after an extended period from checking fencing on his property about 20 miles west of Cincinnati, Ohio. They found him unconscious under the vehicle.
Officers say the accident is under investigation
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013Area:
Phoenix, AZPhoenix police are looking for an ATV rider who fled the scene of a fatal dirt bike accident in Phoenix on Tuesday.
The vehicles collided in the desert near the 25,000 block of North 57th Street around 5 p.m.
The rider of the dirt bike, Frisco Davidson-Spurs Yankolovich, 20, was rushed to a local hospital, where he died of his injuries, said a Phoenix Police Sgt.
The rider of the quad stopped and looked at the victim, then left the scene, police said.
Police said there are no signs of the ATV rider.
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Monday, December 2, 2013Area:
Pittsburgh, PAA 58-year-old Harrisburg man was killed Tuesday afternoon when an ATV he was riding on flipped in Washington County.
The Washington County Coroner said Robert Joseph Weimer was riding the quad in a wooded area off Old Hickory Road in Chartiers Township when the accident happened at 12:45 p.m.
After going up a hill, the quad flipped and pinned Weimer underneath, Warco said.
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Monday, December 2, 2013Area:
Birmingham, ALA Jefferson County sheriff's deputy is fighting for his life after a Tuesday-night ATV crash.
Deputy Brad Perry was listed in critical condition at UAB Hospital Wednesday afternoon, according to a hospital spokesman. Perry is a youth services investigator in the Bessemer Cutoff.
He and a female deputy were off duty and riding an ATV on a mine road off Mud Creek Road when the ATV hit a hole or ditch and flipped, a Jefferson County sheriff's said. Perry suffered a head injury, and has not regained consciousness since the accident.
The female deputy was not hurt.
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Friday, August 16, 2013Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WAThe Chelan County sheriff says a 17-year-old Leavenworth teen died in a weekend accident while riding an all-terrain vehicle (ATV). Mark D. Clark was riding the ATV on Sunitsch Canyon Road in Leavenworth when he lost control and was thrown against a tree, with the ATV rolling into him, causing fatal neck and head injuries. The young man was not wearing a helmet.