FORTY-NINTH WV ATV DEATH RECORDED

(10/09/2006)

The ATV death toll in West Virginia has climbed to a record 49. A North Carolina man was killed last week in Mingo County. Bobby Kemp Edwards, 57, of Goldsboro, North Carolina, was trying to climb a steep embankment when his ATV flipped and pinned him underneath. He was pronounced dead at the scene. State lawmakers are looking at ATV laws they passed, including making the off-the-road ATVs legal on most of WVs hard-surfaced roads. So far, most of the lawmakers have expressed little interest in taking "freedom of the highway" from ATV riders, saying they need to be better educated. ATV manufacturers say the units present safety hazards on hard-surfaced roads, becoming unstable, particularly with two riders.

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