{"id":32347,"date":"2009-03-26T14:58:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/liability_for_atv_deaths_and_s\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:01:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:01:03","slug":"liability-for-atv-deaths-and-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/liability-for-atv-deaths-and-s\/","title":{"rendered":"LIABILITY FOR ATV DEATHS AND SERIOUS INJURIES-ARE YOU AT RISK?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a Georgia injury lawyer I read more and more about ATV accidents involving serious injuries and deaths<\/a>, especially among children. Although there have been dozens of tragic deaths, I recall that in 2003 five Georgia children died after a car struck their ATV. The children, ranging in age from 11 to 14, had piled into the ATV and were going for a ride on a winding road during a birthday party when the collision occurred.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, we represented the estate of a young girl who riding (as a passenger) on the back of an ATV being driven by another young girl at night. Our client was thrown from the ATV which resulted in her sustaining internal injuries which lead to her death.<\/p>\n

Parents who purchase ATV\u2019s and make them available to children may be exposing themselves to substantial personal liability when they fail to supervise the use of them. Many of the tragic cases I read about involve children riding other children on the back of the ATV. Other than with a few models manufactures most ATV\u2019s clearly have labels which say that they are not to be used to ride passengers. Yet parents continue to allow their underage children to ride quests around on the back of the ATV. If it is not bad enough that they are allowed to ride passengers, many do so at night on public roads!<\/p>\n

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As a Georgia injury lawyer I read more and more about ATV accidents involving serious injuries and deaths, especially among children. Although there have been dozens of tragic deaths, I recall that in 2003 five Georgia children died after a car struck their ATV. The children, ranging in age from 11 to 14, had piled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-32347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-injury-wrongful-death","tag-personal-injury"],"yoast_head":"\nLIABILITY FOR ATV DEATHS AND SERIOUS INJURIES-ARE YOU AT RISK? — Trial Attorney Blog — March 26, 2009<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As a Georgia injury lawyer I read more and more about ATV accidents involving serious injuries and deaths, especially among children. 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