Concerned Families for ATV Safety

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Concerned Families for ATV Safety is a network of parents dedicated to reducing injuries and death among children driving powerful All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs). We offer support to victim’s families and provide families with information and resources to make informed decisions about their children and ATVs. Through public education we work to raise awareness of the need for adequate, common sense safety standards that keep children under 16 off ATVs, and for enforcement of ATV laws.

[4.12.08]
ATVs unrestricted as death toll rises
Hutchinson News

Many frown on kid use, but there are no laws in Kan., where 1 child died recently. In Kansas, 16 people were injured and one person died in ATV accidents in 2007, compared to 12 injuries and seven deaths in 2006, according to the Kansas Farm Bureau, which tracks the incidents. No statistics were available yet for 2008, but last week, 13-year-old Shynia Randles died at Syracuse Sand Dunes Recreational Park when an ATV she was driving was hit by a dune buggy. Randles was wearing a helmet.

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[4.10.08]
Boost minimum age for all-terrain riders
Courier Post

Teenagers must be at least 17 to receive a driver's license. Set the same restriction for ATV riders. Once again, a South Jersey family is dealing with the loss of a child killed in an ATV accident and a community is in mourning.

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[3.30.08]
Group continues its fight for ban on riding ATVs before 16
Associated Press

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Kim Smith doesn't need a study from West Virginia University to know that at least 10 children a day start out on an all-terrain vehicle and end up in a hospital bed: Her son is one of the statistics. Smith is a national outreach coordinator for the Concerned Families for ATV Safety, a nonprofit organization founded in 2005 by parents dedicated to reducing injuries and deaths among children. The group wants Congress to conduct an inquiry into the costs of childhood ATV accidents and to ban their use by all children under 16.

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