ATV Crashes

[country_crawler]

Have you ever had one, or seen one, or know anybody that has been injured or killed on one?

I had my first roll today. On my baby. 03 Honda Fourman 450 with FMF Pipe, 28'' ITP Mudlites with ITP wheels, and a jet kit. Needless to say she's got the low end torque and I like to show off. Was playing on a set of like "stairs" made of tree roots in first gear just letting that thing eat, and making my friends jealous with the sound from the pipe just showing off being a tipical teenage boy and it got away from me and the front end came up and came around sideways and went over sideways. I was fine and so was the wheeler, but I just thought about what could happen since I know a 15 year old kid that died on one a few years back. :shock:

 

[boosted4lyf]

I was always told the minute you lose repsect for your bike it'll bite ya in the ass. I rode a Suzuki lt500r aka quadzilla that was a haul ass bike had a few close calls had it come over once grabbing gears in a wheelie.and yes a guy that I worked with in the oilfield was hualing irrigation pipes and somehow got one came lose slamming him in the head killing him.crazy how quick it can all end

 

[Tortuga275]

Ive rolled my quad quite a few times, thankfully most of the time it was in sand. Once while ridding in Oregon on the dunes I was goin in third on a flat patch before the dunes and reached up to adjust my goggles. When I had my one hand off the bar I hit rut from a huge truck(54 Inch boggers). The hit was hard enough that I ended up rolling and when the dust settled my left calf had a new 2 1/2" deep by 1" wide vent hole.

 

[crash]

Oh ya--too many to write about.

Worse was on my quadracer 250. WOT and shifting into 3rd gear across an open area. There was a drop at an angle that couldn't be seen till you were on top of it and caught me off guard. It catapulted me over the quad as the quad went into a barrel roll over top me for probaly 7-8 rolls and hung itself into a tree. Bent every exterior part on the damn thing. I don't miss that thing and prefer having tube around me now :mrgreen:

 

[TXJeeper1]

My daughters best friend growing up was on the back of one with a drunk kid and they where riding on the side of a highway. Well all of a sudden another stupid drunken idiot comes flying around the corner at 110 and slammed into them. Her leg was amputated about 8 inches below the hip and she has had to have countless surgeries to have her arm and hip repaired.

 

[TEAM DEBEAD]

Unfortunately my cousin was one of those drunk idiot types. He and his brother had been drinking all day, went out for a ride, he clipped the rear tire of his brothers bike and went flying. He's been a parapalegic since. That was about 10 years back, and his life has never even been close to the same.
Everytime my family and I go out, we always make sure everyone is good to drive before we take off, and we are always on the look out for other morons who didn't bother.

 

[Skeeno]

1. A guy I grew up with jumped one and crashed. No helmet and the quad somehow landed on him/hit him. He died.

2. A man, whose wife I work with, also jumped one on to his head, again helmetless, he ended up in the hospital for a couple months. It's been a year and he still hasn't quite recovered.

*Lesson here....Wear a helmet.*

 

[beachbum]

Yep, just the thread I need to see right now. The wifey and I are planning on getting my, just turned 8 yr old son, an ATV for Christmas this year. Thanks guys .









Have to close this thread out before she sees it, lol. No ATV for jr, means to ATV for daddy .

 

[hellbentrodder]

Yep, just the thread I need to see right now. The wifey and I are planning on getting my, just turned 8 yr old son, an ATV for Christmas this year. Thanks guys .









Have to close this thread out before she sees it, lol. No ATV for jr, means to ATV for daddy .

I have ridden both dirtbikes and quads most of my life. My advice for someone looking to get one, or one for their kids is to start out on a dirtbike. In my opinion you learn body english and how to handle the machine under you better on a motorcycle. I have ridden with both people who rode bikes first and people who started on quads and my opinion is that most people, not all, that started on quads just did not seem to know handle the machine correctly. This is just my opinion. I know my two kids will be getting a dirtbike first.

 

[beachbum]

Yea, I have had that in the back of my mind. I grew up on dirt bikes my whole childhood too, then on to ATV's. I agree with you're balance/handling assesment with new ATV riders. Everyone around him is stuck on ATV's though including Grandpa, lol. Grandpa is also a Christmas gift contributer "thumbsup".

 

[CREEPINKING]

Got my first ATV when I was around 5 and loved it. Around 14 i got a Banshee and thought I was the shit. Until...I tried to jump a dirt mound and ended up with both arms broke and bone poking through the skin. 14 years later and I still feel it.

 

[spoon250]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgynPo8J87U

This is one of my wrecks. 03 raptor 660 had alot of stuff done to it. I was in 3rd gear and fell back a little. well all my weight shifted and I couldnt find the rear break and then it just went over. handle bar hit my leg and bruised me up and I could hardly walk. I dont have it anymore cause I wrecked it again about 4 months later and decided to sell it before I died.

 

[Benzbuildr]

I had a Honda Trx 250r. I raced it a few years had a few crashes got up and continued on. the worst wreck I had I never came off the ATV. I dislocated my left shoulder and it reset, knocked 4 rids out of place and turned a vertebrae sideways in my back. Before that I had an 87 250x and did poker runs and enduros, clipped a few trees, crashed in creeks and hit other riders but no serious injuries.:mrgreen:"thumbsup"

 

[Jer]

I grew up riding our Honda 250 3wheelers, you didn't learn to drive without wrecking, you learned how to wreck them without getting hurt. Respect the machine. Growing up in the country, I personally know people killed on atv's and hurt very badly on them as well. Wear a helmet no matter how dorky you think it looks.

 

[PEDEcrawlerguy]

Our old shop foreman, name was Bert... He and a few other guys always went out "riding".. which meant getting drunk and haulin @ss... Bert was flyin somewhere where they havent rode much.. Ended up hitting a ditch at somewhere around 40-50 mph.. head on. medics said he was killed instantly from the impact.

 

[rockmahala]

i went flying through a corn field i had rode in before and it didnt cross my mind we had a big storm a couple nights before. a drainage ditch that was normally 2" deep was now 2 foot deep and i didnt have any reaction time. i felt the back end coming up and just let go of the handle bars, first thing to hit was my knees and my knees havent felt the same since. my helmet tore a huge rock out of the ground so im definitely glad i had that on. i could hear my bike flipping down the field and was afraid of what it would look like. the exhaust was jammed full of dirt, cleaned that out and rode away. dont have it now but when i ride my cousins bike i always wear a helmet.

boy i went to school with was flyin through the woods on his parents new property and hit a good size tree. it broke both of his legs and arms. the handlebars had him pinned down on the quad. when his parents got home the next day they went looking for him and found him there. he spent almost a year in the hospital but hes fine now. needless to say his parents didnt replace his destroyed quad.

always wear a helmet even if your just put putting around.

 

[Big Rig Crawler]

I know of two. The first one was that my mother rolled a quad on here. It pretty much compression fractured disc. The other one is were my best friend got hit by one as he was walking done the road. He had tons of internal brusing.

 

[4VRYNG]

Yea, I have had that in the back of my mind. I grew up on dirt bikes my whole childhood too, then on to ATV's. I agree with you're balance/handling assesment with new ATV riders. Everyone around him is stuck on ATV's though including Grandpa, lol. Grandpa is also a Christmas gift contributer "thumbsup".

Give him the Helmet first, and let him know it goes on before the bike gets started.

Common theme in ATV deaths is people not wearing helmets/and booze.
Shouldn't have to worry about booze with an 8 year old.

 

[HomerJ]

I saw my sister damn near killed on one. We were all up at our place in the mountains for a day of fun and relaxing while riding in the woods. We were on our way down a hill when she flipped. She was going a bit fast, but that's not the main cause of her flip, her rear tire hit a good sized rock and popped the rear end up, and then she mashed the front brake down and it endo'd. She was lucky that she stuck her head to the side when it came down on top of her. It was a Honda 450 Foreman, not a small atv by any means. The flip slammed her forehead into the ground on a rock, and split her wide open from right between her eyebrows all the way back an 1" or so into her hairline. When I got down to her she was crawling out from under it, obviously shaken and in shock at this point. I grabbed her and then I saw her skin on one whole side of her forehead just fall to the side. I remember thinking to myself "why can I see fat (white colored flesh) in her forehead??" That's when I realized I was staring at my sister's skull. Being back a couple of miles in the mountains, I didn't have much of a choice but to move her and get her to a place where an ambulance could meet us. All told that day, she ended up with 2 lacerations on the head, a fractured pelvis, and a mis-aligned spine. Before anyone says it, we've learned the hard way about the helmet thing. She made a full recovery and a few hundred stitches and a couple of plastic surgeries later the scar is barely visible. I had nightmares about that for years, and it took her a LONG time before she'd even think about getting back on an atv again.

 

[2500hdon37s]

ive rolled a few time, one head on with another in a blind corner, hit a larger tree , and lay dirt bikes over a few times, but if you ride smart and wear a helmentyour pretty safe