Tyler Lumpkin

ATV's are definitely made unsafe for children and adults. My son Tyler was a big 13 year old 180lbs and he rode ATV's since he was 3. My son even had his first ATV accident at the age of 3. He survived that one but 10 years later he died from an ATV accident we will never know what happened cause he was in the same field with grandpa but this one time grandpa let him go alone riding the ATV to the deer stand to pick up his hammer nails and saw. Well when grandpa found him he was underneath the ATV with the ATV front wheel on top of him dead!

Not a mark on him. Being an ER Trauma Nurse I am sure the wheel caused what we call blunt trauma to his chest and he ruptured his aorta. It freaks me out every time I visualize my son lying there and that huge ATV flipping over on top of him and wondering did he know he was dying, did he have any pain? I was on a traveling assignment in Wilmington, NC and Tyler had just come back to my parent's house for the fair. He was very well trained in the ATV. There is no way he could have been doing any hot wheeling because there were stumps and trees and shrubs all around.

The ATV did what it has done to thousands of riders it tips and turns over. I am a Trauma ER Nurse. I can't do it anymore after my son died. I have taken care of children young adults, middle age and elderly who have all been hurt by ATVs

ATV's are unsafe! The Consumer Product Safety Commission is allowing people to ride an unsafely made device. I cringe when I see an ATV.

I went to an site ATV site and the people in that site do not understand the dangers of ATVs. They blamed me for allowing my son to ride it unsupervised. They said, "are you going to take cars and planes and tractors away too lady!" One guy said,"I have bought my wife and my 13 year old son an ATV". We ride all the time and my wife is an ER Nurse too!" I just told him I would pray for them!

Please can I join you in getting the word out! I am from Missouri! The guy that sold the ATV to my dad and son was always encouraging Tyler to buy another bigger one!

But, it has changed our town some. I do not see very many people riding anymore and my parents have not started the ATV since Tyler died! This summer at the Pike County Fair there was a booth on Farm Safety. I did not attend the fair this year because I knew how much my son enjoyed the fair and the Funnel cakes we shared every year. This year I went and sat by my son's grave.

"Unfinished Mom" Cyndi

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