Children don't belong on ATVs -- yet another victim

[theHandpuppet]

We won't allow children to drive cars that have seat belts and air bags and on smooth paved roads but it's okay for them to go tearing off in rugged terrain on ATVs??? How utterly stupid and irresponsible is that? Sadly, here's another victim...

http://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/articles/2007/09/05/news/local_news/2news_atvinjury.txt
Boy hurt in ATV crash
South Webster principal's son is hospitalized

By JEFF BARRON
PDT Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 12:17 AM EDT

The 12-year-old son of South Webster High School Principal Bob Johnson was critically injured Sunday in an all-terrain vehicle crash in Bloom Township.

Capt. Robert Woodford, of the Scioto County Sheriff's Office, said Riley Johnson, a Wheelersburg resident, suffered incapacitating injuries and was taken to Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington, W.Va., after the 2:53 p.m. crash.

Woodford said an incapacitating injury is one step above a fatal injury.

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Johnson reportedly was ejected from the vehicle, then it rolled over on him.... MORE