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.

The Consumer Product and Safety Commission released its new data on deaths and injuries related to ATV's. You can see the data here.

[08.29.10]
Kayla back in school
www.postandcourier.com

SUMMERVILLE -- As Kayla Beczynski got ready to return to school this year, her biggest concern was what other students at Summerville High would think of her.

Kayla had been out of school since May 2009, when an all-terrain-vehicle wreck left her paralyzed and battling for her life. In the months that followed, she endured endless surgeries, therapies and evaluations as she fought her way back.

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[08.01.10]
Rules toughened for riding ATVs, for children's sake
www.boston.com

New legislation putting serious restrictions on all-terrain-vehicle riding is garnering praise from parents whose children have been injured or killed on these three- and four-wheeled off-road vehicles, and criticism from ATV enthusiasts.

The aim of the legislation, dubbed Sean’s Bill, in memory of an 8-year-old Plymouth child killed in a 2006 ATV accident, is to keep riders too young to handle the powerful machines off them.

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[07.31.10]
GOVERNOR PATRICK SIGNS NEW OFF-HIGHWAY VEHICLE BILL INTO LAW
For Immediate Release

BOSTON - Saturday, July 31, 2010- Governor Deval Patrick today signed into law a bill aimed at increasing the safety of off-highway vehicle (OHV) riding and heightening the protection of natural resources on public and private lands used by OHVs by raising the minimum age requirement for OHV riding and increasing penalties for illegal riding.

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