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Wednesday, April 16, 2014Area:
Boise, IDParamedics and sheriff's deputies responded to an ATV crash about five miles into the Boise foothills Thursday morning.
The crash happened just before 7:15 a.m. near the Hulls Gulch area.
Authorities say an adult male was riding an ATV on a marked trail when he attempted to drive around a locked gate just off Sunset Peak Road, known by many as the 8th Street extension.
The man rolled down a steep embankment and sustained non-life threatening injuries.
He was able to call 911 and guide rescuers to his location.
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Friday, April 11, 2014Area:
Birmingham, ALIn Shelby County, a 37-year-old man was killed in an ATV crash on Saturday night. Troopers said Larry Hal Dyer Pierce Jr. was riding the ATV six miles south of Alabaster. The ATV left the roadway and overturned. Authorities said Pierce was not wearing a helmet, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Saturday, April 5, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLThe Hernando County Sheriff's Office says a woman was killed after being thrown from a four-wheeler she was driving on Sunday.
The Sheriff's Office says Jessica Oras was with a group of people celebrating a birthday at Whitehurst Pond in Brooksville Sunday afternoon when the accident happened.
Hernando County deputies and Fire/Rescue personnel responded around 5 p.m. where an investigation reveled Jessica Oras was driving the four-wheeler with her cousin Rachel Gernaat on the back.
They were driving around the pond and as Oras sped up, they hit a bump and were both ejected from the ATV.
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Friday, April 4, 2014Area:
Spokane, WAAn Omak man faces a vehicular homicide charge after an ATV accident Saturday night that left his passenger dead. The victim, Charity R. Rumbolz, 24, of Omak, was found dead early today in Conconully Lake. Cain M. Bivins, 33, was booked into the Okanogan County Jail. Alcohol was a factor in the accident. Bivins was driving the ATV on Sinlahekin Road along the upper reservoir of Conconully Lake when he lost control on a sharp corner. The ATV went over a 100-foot cliff and into the water. Bivins was ejected but Rumbolz, who was wearing a seat belt, sunk with the ATV in about 30 feet of water.
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Thursday, April 3, 2014Area:
New Orleans, LAA LaPlace teenager died in an ATV accident Friday night after he crashed into a parked all-terrain vehicle carrying a pair of youths who had trespassed onto private property north of River Road in Destrehan, authorities said.
The impact from the crash caused both the teenager, 15-year-old Trent Torres, and the ATV to be thrown into a wooded area, causing the fatal injuries.
Deputies found alcohol and about a dozen teenagers when they arrived at the property owned by BP, after getting a call around 11:49 p.m., said a spokesman for the St. Charles Sheriff's Department.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014Area:
New Orleans, LAA Franklinton woman riding an ATV died Wednesday after she disregarded a traffic signal and was struck by a car, State Police said. The crash occurred at the intersection of Louisiana highways 450 and 16, State Police said.
Cynamon A. Warden, 21, died of injuries at Interim LSU Hospital in New Orleans.
State Police said the collision happened around 12:55 p.m. Wednesday after Warden, who was driving the Kawasaki four-wheeler on Louisiana 450, disregarded a flashing stop sign and red signal light as she crossed Louisiana 16.
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Sunday, March 30, 2014A man was airlifted to the hospital Monday morning after he fell off an ATV and hit his head, according to the Van Buren County Sheriff’s Department.
It happened just before 10 a.m. Monday in a cornfield near the 12000 block of M-40 in Bloomingdale Township, northwest of Paw Paw.
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Saturday, March 29, 2014Area:
San Diego, CAA La Mesa man killed Sunday evening when the off-road vehicle he was driving rolled over and crashed has been identified as Erik Scott Decker, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office.
Decker, 33, was traveling alone in a residential area of unincorporated El Cajon when he drove a Polaris RZR all-terrain vehicle from a dirt road to the asphalt on Snow View Drive near Highway 80, the California Highway Patrol said Sunday.
The Polaris overturned, partially throwing Decker from the driver’s seat and pinning him underneath the vehicle.
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Thursday, March 27, 2014One person is dead and another was badly hurt in an ATV accident in Seminole County.
The accident happened Friday night in the area of East First Street in Chuluota, not far from County Road 419.
Witnesses said the four-wheeler with two men in it, later identified as 22-year-old Daniel Huffman and 23-year-old Wayne Badertcher, was speeding down the road when it hit a sign, flipped and threw both passengers into the trees.
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Friday, March 21, 2014A 57-year-old man has been found dead after an accident involving an all-terrain vehicle in eastern Iowa's Muscatine County.
Authorities say sheriff's deputies were dispatched to a rural Letts property just before 9 p.m. Saturday. They found the body of 57-year-old Randy Tomfeld at the scene of the crash.
The accident is being investigated.