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Saturday, May 24, 2014Area:
Philadelphia, PAA Greene County teenager was killed Sunday when his all-terrain vehicle hit a tree, the coroner’s office said.
The victim was identified as Samuel Thomas Young, 17, of Wayne.
The accident occurred on Bell Run Road in Wayne at 2:20 p.m., state police said.
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Friday, May 23, 2014Area:
New York, NYA man ripping down a Bronx street on an all-terrain vehicle was killed Saturday when he struck an SUV, officials said. The man, identified by his uncle as Anthony Perez, 33, was riding the blue Yamaha ATV and trying to pass a Ford Explorer that was making a turn into an underground garage on Broadway near W. 259th St. in Riverdale at 5:30 p.m. Witnesses said the ATV driver hit the SUV and was thrown from his vehicle. The quad landed upside-down on the sidewalk next to the man’s helmet. Paramedics rushed Perez to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Yonkers, where he died of his injuries.
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Friday, May 23, 2014Area:
Springfield-Holyoke, MALudlow police say a 27-year-old Belchertown man was killed early Saturday morning when the all terrain vehicle he was riding on Miller Street in Ludlow overturned and landed on top of him.
Ludlow Police Sgt. David Belanger said Thomas Brown was transported to the Baystate Medical Center where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
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Saturday, May 17, 2014Area:
Juneau, AKA 34-year-old Juneau man has been found dead near a Tenakee Springs accident site.
Juneau radio station KINY reports Alaska State Troopers identified the victim as James Russell Vavalis.
Troopers say he was found Sunday morning near a flipped over four-wheeler on the beach at Graveyard Point, just east of Tenakee Springs.
Troopers spokeswoman tells Anchorage television station KTUU that it wasn't immediately known when the accident happened. He had been helping family members in the area build a cabin, and was last seen about 11:30 p.m. Saturday.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014Area:
Salt Lake City, UTA man found dead Thursday in an ATV crash in the West Canyon area of Utah County has been identified as 63-year-old Michael Boren, of Lehi.
Boren appeared to have been driving out of the right fork of the canyon when his ATV ran up an embankment and he was thrown to the ground, Utah’s Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon said. He said the vehicle rolled and came to rest on Boren, who was face down on the ground.
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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, April 19, 2014Area:
Birmingham, ALA Maddox Middle School eighth-grader died late Sunday night from injuries she sustained in an ATV crash earlier in the day.
Gracie Abbott, 13, was airlifted to Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham after the accident, which happened near Old Glory Drive, just off Fall City Road.
Abbott was driving the ATV but lost control and the vehicle flipped, throwing Abbott and two of her cousins from the vehicle, officials said.
Abbott was airlifted to the hospital with a severe head injury, but efforts to revive her failed.
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Saturday, April 19, 2014Area:
Monroe, LA-El Dorado, AROne teen was killed and another injured Sunday after an all-terrain vehicle hit a tree in El Dorado.
Arkansas State Police say it happened shortly after 6 p.m. as Antquese D. Frazier, 19, operated a 2003 Yamaha ATV south on Lakeland Street near Houston Street.
According to an accident report, the ATV went out of control and was overcorrected. It then hit a tree.
A passenger on the vehicle, 18-year-old Shakena L. Ford of El Dorado, died from unspecified injuries.
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Friday, April 18, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZTwo girls were taken to the hospital after they were injured Saturday evening in an ATV accident, police say.
A 12-year-old, later identified as Stephanie Quinonez, and 16-year-old, later identified as Shiely Quinonez, were riding an ATV near 36th and Minnezona avenues, said Sgt. Steve Martos, spokesman for the Phoenix Police Department.
The girls were trying to take a photo when the ATV they were riding on collided with a parked vehicle, Martos said.
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Friday, April 18, 2014Area:
Elmira, NYAuthorities in Steuben County are investigating a fatal accident that killed an Addison man.
The Sheriff's office says Aquila Byler, 22, was operating an ATV on a private road in Woodhull around 2 a.m. Saturday morning when he lost control and hit a tree.
He and his brother were ejected, and he died later at a hospital. The brother is in critical condition.