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Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection
Depends. I'm sure they have some kind of language but I doubt it's standard. I mean I'm sure they have things that are "unncessary risks" but I don't think that driving an ATV would qualify.
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Actually driving 4 wheel ATV's is dangerous due to the high number of roll overs. Which is exactly what happend to Rabach. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported that each year 120 children die and 37,000 are injured in ATV rollovers each year. This is just children, this does not include adults.
The problem has become so bad that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is drafting new policys for ATV's like printed warnings on the ATV's and other proposals that will be in place soon.
I know about this because a friend of mine broke his back while riding an ATV. It rolled over him and he was lucky he was not paralysed.
Four wheel motorcycles are a bad idea. The wheel base is too narrow. Dirt bikes are less dangerous. I have two dirt bikes and while there is risk in riding any vehicle there are huge diffrences in the amount of risk. The injury/death stats back that up. There are probably less deaths in Sky diving and bungee jumping than ATV deaths each year in the US.