ATV's more deadly than motorcycles By ccprof (Read 594 times)

[ccprof]

Did you all see this? Evidently bikes are the most dangerous.

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39541305/ns/health-more_health_news/

[dannicus]

I thought that was common knowledge. If you biff it on an ATV, chances are, the damn thing is tumbling right after you.

[Bashan]

I'm a chiropractor who has been practicing in a rural area for 28 years where ATVs are extremely popular. Folks use them for hunting, trail riding, and occaisionally blasting down the highway illegally. I treat a boatload of people for ATV accidents. Operators have a false sense of security because of the extra wheels and consequently ride with wild abandon. What really irks me is parents who turn their young kids loose on them unsupervised thinking they can't hurt themselves on four wheels. I can't tell you how many broken collarbones, whiplashes, and other types of injuries I've seen because of this reckless attitude. Sometimes the injuries are much more tragic. I'm sure these things are safe if operated like they're supposed to be, that just doesn't happen very much around here. These are patients I could do without. Rich

[ccprof]

Yep. The kids rolled my neighbor's in his back yard one day while Mom and Dad were at work.

[4denise]

I do not understand parents who let their children ride motor vehicles. If it has more than a cheap electric motor that goes a few miles an hour, then it is absolutely not suitable for unsupervised children!

[kz1000st]

I don't know what it's like where you live Rich, but here in the backwoods where I live people get hurt on the things all the time because they don't wear helmets. Broken cheekbones, head piercings and other preventable injuries if helmets were worn. They think the things are open roofed cars.

[jhbietz]

Up here in SD we have a couple of people killed every winter on snowmobiles. You have to ride with caution regardless of the type of machine.

[jct842]

some years back there was a rash of people loosing their heads on snow mobiles. 40 years ago if I had been on one I would have bought the farm too. I was going to fast to see in bad light and went thru a gate way that was open the day before that had a single strand of barb wire that hit just below my handle bars on a 250cc tall dirt bike. some one on a snowmobile would have had their head cut off on that same wire. luckily I broke it, and found it did have some strips of cloth hanging on it but in low light I did not see them.

one other point of the statistics quoted, an atv take much less skill to operate so gets riders who could not ride a bike.
john