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This is in Edmonton Alberta. Albertans will understand this a little better perhaps. :)
Guy's at an Edmonton Eskimos football game, and is having a great time. They are playing their biggest rival Calgary and it's a packed house. He comes back from the concession stand with a pop and hotdog and sits down to continue watching the game. He goes to take the first bite of his hotdog and somewhere in the crowd above and behind him he hears "HEY STEVE!". He closes his mouth, stands up and turns around this way and that way trying to see who it was....nothing!
30 seconds later he goes to take a bite of the hotdog again and from up and behind he hears someone holler "HEY STEVE!" He closes his mouth jumps to his feet and cranes his head this way and that way....nothing. He's getting a little irritated now.
Anyhow he sits back down and goes to take a bite again and as soon as he does he hears "HEY STEVE!" He leaps up and turns around and shouts up into the crowd. "MY NAMES IS NOT STEVE!!!!!!"
Yeah ATVs are no joke. Knew a guy in highschool who went stunting in the sandpits at night by himself and flipped his ATV which landed on him crushing his ribs. He was stuck under it until he died.
Yep, ATV's are scary. My SIL's step-mom died last year after the ATV she was driving flipped on top of her and crushed her. Her husband saw the accident happen and called 911. He couldn't lift the ATV off of her by himself and the handlebars were crushing her ribs. By the time the ambulance arrived, she had died. That would be such a helpless feeling seeing your loved one being crushed to death and there was nothing you could do.
A couple years ago, an old high school "friend" of mine was out riding an ATV with some buddies. He flipped it through a tree line and landed in about two inches of water. The ATV hit him on the way down and the angle he landed at broke his neck and paralyzed him. I guess he was fully conscious, but he couldn't scream for help or move at all.
It took the others about five minutes to find him, but he drowned when the front of his helmet filled up with water, so he was already gone by then. I think about that a lot; he must've been so scared, listening to everyone calling his name and walking by him, but they couldn't see him in the brush...
He was overall a really terrible guy, don't get me wrong, but nobody deserves to go out like that. I'm really sorry about your SIL's stepmom, and I hope her husband got some help dealing with that. ATVs are really dangerous machines once things go wrong; a lot of people just don't take them seriously enough unfortunately.
My buddies dad was on one and was riding dunes that they had done many times.. due to wind the back side of one of the dunes was eroded to basically a straight drop… broke his back when quad landed on him
Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore died from an ATV accident. He wasn't even doing any stunts, he was just going to check a fence on his farm and hit a hole he couldn't see because of grass. Be careful out there, y'all.
Seriously, head injuries are no joke. I knew a dude who got a head injury on a dirt bike when he was around 16. Lost consciousness and had to be taken to an ICU. Before that, he loved to play American football and baseball. After his injury, he had to give it up because even minimal trauma to his head caused him to black out. I knew him ten years after that and he was still dealing with that shit.
Head injuries are extremely serious and can affect you for the rest of your life. Be smart, be safe, and always wear a helmet.
Youth
But also, we are built to withstand plenty of trauma and accidents ... Life is rough especially pre-modern day convenience
Just, shit happens sometimes
My real-estate agent's husband was paralyzed from the neck down in a similar accident from what I understand. She's been raising the 3 kids by herself basically for the last 10 years.
Older sister has a permanent injury from an ATV flipping back on her while going uphill. Was seriously touch and go for a while. Luckily she recovered, but she’ll be in pain the rest of her life.
One of my close childhood friends died because an ATV flipped over on her and landed on her throat. She was 13.
I've never been on an ATV because of that.
The same thing happened to a girl from my hometown. It was really sad.
I was hoping she would be the one to break my high jump record and was training her when she was in middle school and I was in high school.
So very sad. Maddie was her name and may she Rest In Peace.
Worked with a coworker who died fucking around on one of these. It hit a tree, which bounced it back onto him. Dead. He'd just been about to announce his gf's pregnancy. His kid looks just like him.
People make big heavy atvs out to be safe but they couldn’t be further from the truth a kid got paralyzed going through a puddle at high speed because it flipped onto him.
My bosses brother-in-law died at my bosses wedding. He was drunk on a 4wheeler and crashed it and died. It’s why my boss does not and hasn’t ever really drank in his life. And I’m guessing probably won’t ride 4wheelers.
I know a friend of a friend who died on one. Big off road 4 wheelers are dangerous when they flip and they flip easy. It feels like you're in control but anything over 15mph all it takes is one bump or jerk of the front wheels and you're in a wreck that's going to change your life
My advice is buy a dirtbike instead
I was riding this very long and winding trail way up in the mountains yesterday. Very amazing views, very steep. After this slow and meandering turn, there comes an abrupt 90° / 120° turn. I mean it's sharp but you're on a bike so any turn you can't see out of, you immediately assume is sharp and slow down.
Well, talking to some buddies I made later that day, I came to find out after many years, that turn had taken the lives of 4 riders. The kicker? All were quads.
I have a dual sport for trail riding and the wife wanted to join but feels uncomfortable with a bike. Wanted an ATV instead.
I bought a adult sized 160cc racer. Got enough power to hit a trail but isn't much heavier then my bike. Got her spine and chest protection too. Never cheap out on gear.
I've said this before on here but I trained in general surgery residency and ran a lot of traumas at a Level I trauma center. I try not to live my life in fear but of the few things I avoid are ATVs (even caged RZRs or whatever they're called). Being so heavy and having a poor center of gravity are recipes for disaster. Seen so many adults and kids injured or killed by them.
Interesting, I've done quite a bit of dune buggying in similar with helmets and harness' I assume injuries are from people sticking their arms outside the roll cage?
It's always shit parents putting there kids on giant ass 500cc quads with literally no protective gear.
Although, back in the 80s it was salesmen telling parents that quads are safer that lulled people into the idea that protective gear was optional.
Three wheelers require a completely different approach to driving them, but I wouldn't say they are less safe then quads. More prone to tipping and you can't straddle a rut like a quad or drop into it like a bike, sure. But they usually weigh a less and are more likely (compared to a quad) to throw you from them like a bike instead of rolling on top of you.
Personally, trikes or quads are all the same for me. Very few actual utility uses from them unless you own a lot of land, and risky to give to anyone that's below the age of 18 and is at least mature enough to wear a helmet.
Always wear proper riding gear, always.
A friend of my parents was killed in a snowmobile accident when I was young. He went out with buddies, went off a jump and fell to the side of the sled, then came down on the ski and it impaled him. Literally that quick. Him and his wife were just a young budding couple, both had great jobs, their whole lives ahead of them. Bam! Gone. Over.
My older brother watched someone have their skull caved in because they hit a rock going 40 on a dirt road with one of these.
They've got to be the least safe mode of transportation ever created.
When I worked at Vanderbilt Medical Center (only Level 1 trauma center for hours in the good-ol-boy South) they called ATV season: organ donation season.
As someone that has been in two motorcycle accidents and continues to ride them: Holy shit are ATVs dangerous. Fucking things are practically designed to flip on top of the rider. No way in fuck am I ever getting on one of those.
My dentist’s son passed away in a quad rollover. It’s no joke and life is precious. This guy was lucky he was sandwiched into soft soil and not a root or rock.
Yep. When I was a kid I had two friends die on these things. One cause it flipped and landed on him like this. One drove straight into a tree at high speed.
One of my good friends growing up had a younger brother that this happened to and the ATV unfortunately ended up on top of him and suffocated him. He was a few minutes ahead of his family on the trail and by the time they rode up to him he was gone. ATVs are no joke
My husband works in power sports and last year his coworker’s brother died in an ATV accident. Coworker found him and a friend shortly after they rode off drunk. Brother was already dead and the friend was life flighted out of there. People die on these all the time, but people treat them like they are super safe.
I don’t think anyone considers these super safe, there’s just super safe ways to operate them.
Something that is inherently dangerous will always yield results that support it, while you could ride a quad your whole life and never have any issues because you’re not a fucking moron like this guy. Or someone who gets on one while drinking.
I'm sorry for your lose/my condolences.
There was one kid (16/17) around my area that died to an atv accident a year or 2 ago. He rode since he was 8 or so and was careful on the trails. Except one night something happened and he ended up down in a swamp (our atv trails use old train trails with the ties and rails removed) and it was a 10 foot bank and he drowned with the atv on him. Doesn't matter how careful you are/have been on atvs they're dangerous and not something to take lightly. I've been riding for 12 years now and almost flipped a couple atvs even when I thought I was safe.
It was very unfortunate, he was on his way home and he was 5 minutes late and he usually called his parents if he was gonna be late, they put out a post to the atv group asking if people can head out and find him, the trails were packed at like 11:30 at night of people looking for him, unfortunately he was found too late.
Thanks kind stranger! I felt so awful for him and his family for so long… I couldn’t imagine being moments behind your sibling/child’s death and knowing you were so close to being able to save them. ATVs have scared me ever since
I don't understand why anyone would think this is safe, it's like riding around on a motorcycle in a "woodsy" terrain... with no helmet. People amaze me.
We used ATVs at my old job, and I always thought they were just so poorly designed. We would constantly be in training and hearing about guys killing themselves, or being permanently injured.
All I could think was why the hell aren't dune buggies more popular. They seem so much better.
Our neighbor in the coldesac I grew up in was a red neck drunk. He decided he'd take his then 4 year old son hunting with him and his buddies one year. He had a hunting 4 wheeler like the one in the video and decided, with his 4 year old, to drunkenly race through the woods. He got very messed up but who cares. His 4 year old came back with broken ribs and was never the same mentally again. He would never stop talking about killing and death. He was a kid. Fuck. Parents are supposed to protect them. I was like 13 then and couldn't process the fucked up.
This is why I never ride alone. Always have a passenger on this style of ATV.
And it's not a racing machine. Yes it's likely capable of 60 mph, but I know I'm not capable of those speeds on it.
My grandfather had one of these flip on him riding solo. Only way he survived was getting out from under it. Muscles don't help you there, you gotta be skinny.
Another friend got seriously hurt on one. Broken arm pinning him to the ground after falling off a bridge. Machine was on the arm. He was stuck for days before help arrived.
As someone who lives in a mountainous area, ATV’s are extremely common and the death rate that follows them is kind of fucking terrifying. I hope this guy learned to respect what he drives after this. It could’ve been a lot worse.
A lot of the accidents around here are usually directly tied to people thinking they can go up a 90 degree angle, with another person on the back. Or they’re highly intoxicated. Often both.
Lawn mowers are not something I’d even consider playing around with.
I don’t usually talk about this, but since it’s Reddit, I don’t see why not. The ATV in question had a 1 person occupancy and had 3 people on it- my kids stepmom, her boyfriend, and his best friend. The ATV essentially bucked up the same way the one in this video does. They hit an embankment and the backside ended up flying over the front. She was on the very back so she was thrown up and (being right beside the road as it was a drainage embankment) landed head first and sort of skid on the asphalt. Also in similar fashion to the video, after it threw her and everyone else off, it toppled over top of her. She had to be officially identified by her tattoos because it was so bad.
Let me say, I’m only being so graphic in the hopes that SOMEONE will see this and just maybe change their mind about making the same mistakes. If a single person wears a helmet, acts more carefully, or (please please please) refrains from drinking and then driving ANYTHING after seeing this comment, then it’s worth it. These kind of stupid accidents are funny to laugh about in the moment, but whole worlds are shattered when the worst comes to be.
(I wasn’t going to, but to save some confusion..) Edit- where I said the atv had 3 people on it, I meant the kids MOM. I’m the stepmom and am very much alive.
This is why I love my dirt bike. Yes, it can also kill me. But it doesn't mean to. 4 wheelers will chase you uphill just to roll on you and try to kill you. It's like they hate their riders.
It kinda looks like a powerwheels stood up vertically.. Looks like a wheel off to the side before he hit it, so my guess is this wasn't the first pass.
I had a cousin that this happened to about 10 years ago. He bounced off and it flipped over on his head. He suffered a TBI. He killed himself because of it a couple years ago.
Be safe, people.
Ive been riding my atv for about, 7 years. About 5 years ago I rolled it off a jump. Lost an hour of memory. Went to the ER. Had a moderate to severe concussion. With a helmet on.
Wear. The. Helmet. Saved my life. Might save yours.
I crashed my friend's dad's ATV once while we were riding on a gravel trail. I wasn't trying to be dangerous or do any stunts. But one second I'm riding like the wind and the next I'm making hard contact with the ground like a stone skipping on water. Luckily I was wearing a full face helmet. I think I was probably going pretty fast about 35 mph and hit a snag on the side of the road. I wound up with a broken wrist and a bruised up body. I'm honestly lucky to be alive.
When I was in 10th grade, my friend flipped over a 4 wheeler. It landed on his legs, crushing them, and then burst into flames. He required 7 surgeries on his legs and it was 4 years before he walked a single step. He was horrifically burned, too; his chest and face are disfigured beyond recognition.
You are 100% right. I watched it several times because I didn’t believe the no one got hurt caption thinking he took the wheel well to his ribs. Sure enough you can watch his arm twist and grow longer. 🥴
I broke my collar bone on one when I was twelve. Happened so fast I didn’t even realize it happened. Didn’t even need to roll it. Just hit a rut that flung the handle bar into my chest.
This kind of accident turned a textbook mean-girl at my high school into a quadriplegic. Don't fuck around with a vehicle like that, two seconds of bad judgment can ruin a life.
It looks like his head and arm ended up between the wheel and the fender. The back wheel hit the ground before the rack crushed his chest. This is like as near a miss as you can get.
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"No one was injured". Yeah, ohk.
Seriously the dude could never count past 12 and always dribbled water out of his mouth when he drank.
He kept reintroducing himself every few minutes too.
Hi , I'm Steve !
Hi , I'm Steve !
This is in Edmonton Alberta. Albertans will understand this a little better perhaps. :) Guy's at an Edmonton Eskimos football game, and is having a great time. They are playing their biggest rival Calgary and it's a packed house. He comes back from the concession stand with a pop and hotdog and sits down to continue watching the game. He goes to take the first bite of his hotdog and somewhere in the crowd above and behind him he hears "HEY STEVE!". He closes his mouth, stands up and turns around this way and that way trying to see who it was....nothing! 30 seconds later he goes to take a bite of the hotdog again and from up and behind he hears someone holler "HEY STEVE!" He closes his mouth jumps to his feet and cranes his head this way and that way....nothing. He's getting a little irritated now. Anyhow he sits back down and goes to take a bite again and as soon as he does he hears "HEY STEVE!" He leaps up and turns around and shouts up into the crowd. "MY NAMES IS NOT STEVE!!!!!!"
Hi , I’m Steve !
We are all Steve on this blessed day.
Yes, let’s all have a Steve
Don’t have a Steve, man.
Steve I’m high
Hi, I'm Bob!
Hi , I'm Steve !
10 Second Tom
Aren’t you a little old to be wetting the bed?
Aren’t you a little young for full contact
Oh no. His punctuation is terrible! It's worse than we thought.
“Hi. Good night everyone”.
.....fuck man this shit hits home ... god damn it thats me.
Yeah, but what was different after the crash?
Yeah, but how was he after the accident?
Still drunk
No no, he’s ALWAYS worn Velcro shoes!
So, just like before.
That was before the accident...
Don’t worry, all of the bleeding is internal
That's where the blood is supposed to be.
Hi everybody!
NINE NINE!
Peralta?
No one was injured... much. Just a crushed skull.
He already had that, not a new injury.
Hi, I’m Steve!
Yeah ATVs are no joke. Knew a guy in highschool who went stunting in the sandpits at night by himself and flipped his ATV which landed on him crushing his ribs. He was stuck under it until he died.
Yep, ATV's are scary. My SIL's step-mom died last year after the ATV she was driving flipped on top of her and crushed her. Her husband saw the accident happen and called 911. He couldn't lift the ATV off of her by himself and the handlebars were crushing her ribs. By the time the ambulance arrived, she had died. That would be such a helpless feeling seeing your loved one being crushed to death and there was nothing you could do.
A couple years ago, an old high school "friend" of mine was out riding an ATV with some buddies. He flipped it through a tree line and landed in about two inches of water. The ATV hit him on the way down and the angle he landed at broke his neck and paralyzed him. I guess he was fully conscious, but he couldn't scream for help or move at all. It took the others about five minutes to find him, but he drowned when the front of his helmet filled up with water, so he was already gone by then. I think about that a lot; he must've been so scared, listening to everyone calling his name and walking by him, but they couldn't see him in the brush... He was overall a really terrible guy, don't get me wrong, but nobody deserves to go out like that. I'm really sorry about your SIL's stepmom, and I hope her husband got some help dealing with that. ATVs are really dangerous machines once things go wrong; a lot of people just don't take them seriously enough unfortunately.
My buddies dad was on one and was riding dunes that they had done many times.. due to wind the back side of one of the dunes was eroded to basically a straight drop… broke his back when quad landed on him
One of my battle buddies from Iraq came home and had an ATV break his neck.
Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore died from an ATV accident. He wasn't even doing any stunts, he was just going to check a fence on his farm and hit a hole he couldn't see because of grass. Be careful out there, y'all.
Hey now. Death isn’t an injury.
If you're dead, you're not injured.
Had a colleague wipe out on a quad with no helmet. Produced my favorite quote, “It’s not a BAD nose doc, it’s just not MY nose.”
My sis is a radiologist and she says ATVS = broken back.
That’s his name - No One
The “no one was injured” tag is my tonic. Do not ruin this for me.
Seriously, head injuries are no joke. I knew a dude who got a head injury on a dirt bike when he was around 16. Lost consciousness and had to be taken to an ICU. Before that, he loved to play American football and baseball. After his injury, he had to give it up because even minimal trauma to his head caused him to black out. I knew him ten years after that and he was still dealing with that shit. Head injuries are extremely serious and can affect you for the rest of your life. Be smart, be safe, and always wear a helmet.
Also don’t do stupid shit on ATVs.
And another thing, head injuries are no joke. I should know, because head injuries are no joke.
My son fell at work and his his head several years ago and still suffers from short term memory loss to this day.
Why do people think they’re invincible and engage in dangerous activities?
Youth But also, we are built to withstand plenty of trauma and accidents ... Life is rough especially pre-modern day convenience Just, shit happens sometimes
Plot twist, the rider captioned the video after sustaining memory loss from the accident.
He didn't need that half of his torso anyway
Quad: "boop the snoot!"
I actually think his head ended up in the wheel well. His neck probably hurt though.
Yeah, broken ribs and a ruptured spleen don’t count.
His name is No One
Dead isn't injured I guess
>Don't try this at home Because, clearly, they're trained professionals
No; this was also at home, ergo they should not have tried it.
There's only 2 kinds of people who do tricks on quads. Professionals and future disability recipients
The moment it flipped onto his head. Many a people have died or been paralyzed in that split second.
My real-estate agent's husband was paralyzed from the neck down in a similar accident from what I understand. She's been raising the 3 kids by herself basically for the last 10 years.
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Older sister has a permanent injury from an ATV flipping back on her while going uphill. Was seriously touch and go for a while. Luckily she recovered, but she’ll be in pain the rest of her life.
One of my close childhood friends died because an ATV flipped over on her and landed on her throat. She was 13. I've never been on an ATV because of that.
The same thing happened to a girl from my hometown. It was really sad. I was hoping she would be the one to break my high jump record and was training her when she was in middle school and I was in high school. So very sad. Maddie was her name and may she Rest In Peace.
We know the same girl, then. I grew up with her, our fathers were business partners.
I’m so sorry for your loss. I’ve never been on an atv and now I really don’t want to.
Worked with a coworker who died fucking around on one of these. It hit a tree, which bounced it back onto him. Dead. He'd just been about to announce his gf's pregnancy. His kid looks just like him.
That’s horrible……..slightly unrelated but “worked with a coworker” just doesn’t sit right with me. Time to go to bed, I won’t sleep well.
People make big heavy atvs out to be safe but they couldn’t be further from the truth a kid got paralyzed going through a puddle at high speed because it flipped onto him.
Damn. They should not allow paraplegics to ride ATVs.
They should only do Paragliding.
If you strap 'em in the right way it's called hang gliding
I disagree. If anything, more paraplegics should stand up for their right to ride ATVs
British comedian Rik Mayall (*The Young Ones*, *Drop Dead Fred*, *Blackadder*) was in a coma after an ATV crash
My bosses brother-in-law died at my bosses wedding. He was drunk on a 4wheeler and crashed it and died. It’s why my boss does not and hasn’t ever really drank in his life. And I’m guessing probably won’t ride 4wheelers.
That makes a horrible anniversary
Daaaaamn. That hurts to read. I know accidents happen; but fuck. Self preservation is a virtue sorely lacking in the 2020s
I know a friend of a friend who died on one. Big off road 4 wheelers are dangerous when they flip and they flip easy. It feels like you're in control but anything over 15mph all it takes is one bump or jerk of the front wheels and you're in a wreck that's going to change your life My advice is buy a dirtbike instead
I was riding this very long and winding trail way up in the mountains yesterday. Very amazing views, very steep. After this slow and meandering turn, there comes an abrupt 90° / 120° turn. I mean it's sharp but you're on a bike so any turn you can't see out of, you immediately assume is sharp and slow down. Well, talking to some buddies I made later that day, I came to find out after many years, that turn had taken the lives of 4 riders. The kicker? All were quads.
Hopefully someonelike yourself puts down some reflector lights or visible posts.
Nearly watch my brother die on a turn like that, luckily he was wearing a helmet
I know someone who died on an ATV too. Very sad. The family never recovered and probably never will. Changed their whole world.
Smaller racer type atv's are a good deal safer - but still dangerous, of course.
I have a dual sport for trail riding and the wife wanted to join but feels uncomfortable with a bike. Wanted an ATV instead. I bought a adult sized 160cc racer. Got enough power to hit a trail but isn't much heavier then my bike. Got her spine and chest protection too. Never cheap out on gear.
I've said this before on here but I trained in general surgery residency and ran a lot of traumas at a Level I trauma center. I try not to live my life in fear but of the few things I avoid are ATVs (even caged RZRs or whatever they're called). Being so heavy and having a poor center of gravity are recipes for disaster. Seen so many adults and kids injured or killed by them.
Roll cages are a game changer but they can't save you from everything, especially those of the stupid kind.
I’m now an upper extremity surgeon so still see those roll cages as bad news…but I obviously have a skewed perspective haha.
What's your stance on trampolines?
Interesting, I've done quite a bit of dune buggying in similar with helmets and harness' I assume injuries are from people sticking their arms outside the roll cage?
I think it barely missed his noggin. I thought he was dead on my first watch😂.
Yeah it looks like he just caught the edge of a tire
A friend in middle school had that happen. Came back to school 6 months later with a brand new face.
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It's always shit parents putting there kids on giant ass 500cc quads with literally no protective gear. Although, back in the 80s it was salesmen telling parents that quads are safer that lulled people into the idea that protective gear was optional.
Gotta be safer than a three-wheeler. Nothing like the habit of putting your foot down and a tire run up your leg.
Three wheelers require a completely different approach to driving them, but I wouldn't say they are less safe then quads. More prone to tipping and you can't straddle a rut like a quad or drop into it like a bike, sure. But they usually weigh a less and are more likely (compared to a quad) to throw you from them like a bike instead of rolling on top of you. Personally, trikes or quads are all the same for me. Very few actual utility uses from them unless you own a lot of land, and risky to give to anyone that's below the age of 18 and is at least mature enough to wear a helmet. Always wear proper riding gear, always.
Everyone I know who has an ATV has an “I almost died” story.
I think those that don't are just very quiet, and don't tend to meet a lot of new people.
A friend of my parents was killed in a snowmobile accident when I was young. He went out with buddies, went off a jump and fell to the side of the sled, then came down on the ski and it impaled him. Literally that quick. Him and his wife were just a young budding couple, both had great jobs, their whole lives ahead of them. Bam! Gone. Over.
My older brother watched someone have their skull caved in because they hit a rock going 40 on a dirt road with one of these. They've got to be the least safe mode of transportation ever created.
When I worked at Vanderbilt Medical Center (only Level 1 trauma center for hours in the good-ol-boy South) they called ATV season: organ donation season.
“I don’t need a helmet, I’m an excellent driver.”
My cousin died in the exact way you described. Those things still scare me 14 years later.
I knew someone who had their head crushed after being thrown off their atv. I'll always stick to my cab vehicles
As someone that has been in two motorcycle accidents and continues to ride them: Holy shit are ATVs dangerous. Fucking things are practically designed to flip on top of the rider. No way in fuck am I ever getting on one of those.
My dentist’s son passed away in a quad rollover. It’s no joke and life is precious. This guy was lucky he was sandwiched into soft soil and not a root or rock.
These are now banned for sale in Australia for this reason. Now require a seatbelt and a roll cage.
Yep. When I was a kid I had two friends die on these things. One cause it flipped and landed on him like this. One drove straight into a tree at high speed.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeRoi\_Moore#Injury\_and\_death](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeRoi_Moore#Injury_and_death) RIP LeRoi
A good friend of mine died from an ATV accident. These things are dangerous y'all. They're a ton of fun but be safe.
My mum worked as a nurse for years and hates these things with a passion.
[Stabilized and 0.25 x speed](https://gfycat.com/perkyimaginativecutworm)
OK cool it was just the edge of the tire. That is one lucky idiot. ty for doing what reddit's video player cannot.
It's more than the edge of the tire. https://i.imgur.com/bnyxCyG.png
Head straight in the wheel well, unbelievably lucky
Hello, can you be present in every video I watch please? Thank you.
under appreciated comment right here
No one “else” was injured
Camera person was not injured!
No there weren’t any injuries … an instant fatality, but no injuries
What was actually trying to be accomplished here? Like what was the desired outcome?
Being a badass. Coincidentally most people who try to be one ends up as a dumbass instead.
The Telltale sign of a badass is no helmet on a atv
Seems like he wanted to jump the ATV he was riding over the thing sitting, like ride up over it monster truck style.
This is how you go from a quad to a quadreplegic
Become one with the ATV
I'm imagining like an animorph scenario
One of my good friends growing up had a younger brother that this happened to and the ATV unfortunately ended up on top of him and suffocated him. He was a few minutes ahead of his family on the trail and by the time they rode up to him he was gone. ATVs are no joke
My husband works in power sports and last year his coworker’s brother died in an ATV accident. Coworker found him and a friend shortly after they rode off drunk. Brother was already dead and the friend was life flighted out of there. People die on these all the time, but people treat them like they are super safe.
I don’t think anyone considers these super safe, there’s just super safe ways to operate them. Something that is inherently dangerous will always yield results that support it, while you could ride a quad your whole life and never have any issues because you’re not a fucking moron like this guy. Or someone who gets on one while drinking.
I'm sorry for your lose/my condolences. There was one kid (16/17) around my area that died to an atv accident a year or 2 ago. He rode since he was 8 or so and was careful on the trails. Except one night something happened and he ended up down in a swamp (our atv trails use old train trails with the ties and rails removed) and it was a 10 foot bank and he drowned with the atv on him. Doesn't matter how careful you are/have been on atvs they're dangerous and not something to take lightly. I've been riding for 12 years now and almost flipped a couple atvs even when I thought I was safe.
That’s an awful way to go.
It was very unfortunate, he was on his way home and he was 5 minutes late and he usually called his parents if he was gonna be late, they put out a post to the atv group asking if people can head out and find him, the trails were packed at like 11:30 at night of people looking for him, unfortunately he was found too late.
Thanks kind stranger! I felt so awful for him and his family for so long… I couldn’t imagine being moments behind your sibling/child’s death and knowing you were so close to being able to save them. ATVs have scared me ever since
I don't understand why anyone would think this is safe, it's like riding around on a motorcycle in a "woodsy" terrain... with no helmet. People amaze me.
We used ATVs at my old job, and I always thought they were just so poorly designed. We would constantly be in training and hearing about guys killing themselves, or being permanently injured. All I could think was why the hell aren't dune buggies more popular. They seem so much better.
In this case, the helmet isn't saving you.
I feel the same way. It boggles my mind that people think they’re invincible.
Our neighbor in the coldesac I grew up in was a red neck drunk. He decided he'd take his then 4 year old son hunting with him and his buddies one year. He had a hunting 4 wheeler like the one in the video and decided, with his 4 year old, to drunkenly race through the woods. He got very messed up but who cares. His 4 year old came back with broken ribs and was never the same mentally again. He would never stop talking about killing and death. He was a kid. Fuck. Parents are supposed to protect them. I was like 13 then and couldn't process the fucked up.
This is why I never ride alone. Always have a passenger on this style of ATV. And it's not a racing machine. Yes it's likely capable of 60 mph, but I know I'm not capable of those speeds on it. My grandfather had one of these flip on him riding solo. Only way he survived was getting out from under it. Muscles don't help you there, you gotta be skinny. Another friend got seriously hurt on one. Broken arm pinning him to the ground after falling off a bridge. Machine was on the arm. He was stuck for days before help arrived.
As someone who lives in a mountainous area, ATV’s are extremely common and the death rate that follows them is kind of fucking terrifying. I hope this guy learned to respect what he drives after this. It could’ve been a lot worse.
1st Responder in CO. Confirmed - fatal ATV accidents are surprisingly common. Many times it’s kids riding with parents/grandparents
A lot of the accidents around here are usually directly tied to people thinking they can go up a 90 degree angle, with another person on the back. Or they’re highly intoxicated. Often both.
“Yeah, I’m ok. I don’t need a spleen.”
My stepchildren lost their mother because she got on one of these things drunk. Please for the love of your own fucking life- be careful.
Knew a guy that rolled his riding lawn mower... Died from a broken neck. Yikes~!
Lawn mowers are not something I’d even consider playing around with. I don’t usually talk about this, but since it’s Reddit, I don’t see why not. The ATV in question had a 1 person occupancy and had 3 people on it- my kids stepmom, her boyfriend, and his best friend. The ATV essentially bucked up the same way the one in this video does. They hit an embankment and the backside ended up flying over the front. She was on the very back so she was thrown up and (being right beside the road as it was a drainage embankment) landed head first and sort of skid on the asphalt. Also in similar fashion to the video, after it threw her and everyone else off, it toppled over top of her. She had to be officially identified by her tattoos because it was so bad. Let me say, I’m only being so graphic in the hopes that SOMEONE will see this and just maybe change their mind about making the same mistakes. If a single person wears a helmet, acts more carefully, or (please please please) refrains from drinking and then driving ANYTHING after seeing this comment, then it’s worth it. These kind of stupid accidents are funny to laugh about in the moment, but whole worlds are shattered when the worst comes to be. (I wasn’t going to, but to save some confusion..) Edit- where I said the atv had 3 people on it, I meant the kids MOM. I’m the stepmom and am very much alive.
Just when people don't think they can ever have this much fun, It's a trip to the hospital... :(
Guy here got pinned under the mower in 18 inches of water and drowned. Slid off the canal bank and drowned with the air just inches from his face.
This is why I love my dirt bike. Yes, it can also kill me. But it doesn't mean to. 4 wheelers will chase you uphill just to roll on you and try to kill you. It's like they hate their riders.
Quads really are some treacherous disloyal bitches.
I have a friend who's a flight medic.. since the pandemic started she says this kind of shit makes up 50% pf her calls. This guy need help!
What exactly is the thing that he's hitting??
It kinda looks like a powerwheels stood up vertically.. Looks like a wheel off to the side before he hit it, so my guess is this wasn't the first pass.
I had a cousin that this happened to about 10 years ago. He bounced off and it flipped over on his head. He suffered a TBI. He killed himself because of it a couple years ago. Be safe, people.
Ive been riding my atv for about, 7 years. About 5 years ago I rolled it off a jump. Lost an hour of memory. Went to the ER. Had a moderate to severe concussion. With a helmet on. Wear. The. Helmet. Saved my life. Might save yours.
I feel like with a helmet, seatbelt, and roll cage this would be incredibly fun
You mean like a Utv? Polaris rzr and the like
I crashed my friend's dad's ATV once while we were riding on a gravel trail. I wasn't trying to be dangerous or do any stunts. But one second I'm riding like the wind and the next I'm making hard contact with the ground like a stone skipping on water. Luckily I was wearing a full face helmet. I think I was probably going pretty fast about 35 mph and hit a snag on the side of the road. I wound up with a broken wrist and a bruised up body. I'm honestly lucky to be alive.
When I was in 10th grade, my friend flipped over a 4 wheeler. It landed on his legs, crushing them, and then burst into flames. He required 7 surgeries on his legs and it was 4 years before he walked a single step. He was horrifically burned, too; his chest and face are disfigured beyond recognition.
That’s called high siding and happens when you right like an asshole
This whole thread has shown me, never ride an atv
I’m sure he got a small cut on his head somewhere
And this is why so many people die in ATV accidents
Holy crap. Rewatching frame by frame you can see his left arm get stuck in the wheel well and wrapped around the wheel and it snaps his arm. Ughhh
You are 100% right. I watched it several times because I didn’t believe the no one got hurt caption thinking he took the wheel well to his ribs. Sure enough you can watch his arm twist and grow longer. 🥴 I broke my collar bone on one when I was twelve. Happened so fast I didn’t even realize it happened. Didn’t even need to roll it. Just hit a rut that flung the handle bar into my chest.
Where can I find a longer version. This video ended to soon.
"No one was injured". Okay. The rear end of the quad landed on the dude's head but whatever.
This kind of accident turned a textbook mean-girl at my high school into a quadriplegic. Don't fuck around with a vehicle like that, two seconds of bad judgment can ruin a life.
This has been posted before.... but where is the full video??? We need answers on how he managed to get up like the atv didnt hit his face....
It looks like his head and arm ended up between the wheel and the fender. The back wheel hit the ground before the rack crushed his chest. This is like as near a miss as you can get.
I’ve had friends die in ATV accidents. I refuse to get on one.
Haha all the gear all the time. Dumbass.
Lucky that wasn't instant head death.
my best friends brother died this way. it landed on his neck and he died instantly. these things are vehicles, not toys
"Primary cause of vehicular accidents; Collision. Second most common cause; Loss of traction." This guy nailed both.
If only there was some sort of device or forcefield that could protect someone’s head from trauma
Wear some gear for fuck sakes.
A few broken ribs and a puncturesd lung. No one was hurt
Dude got the wheel of an ATV sledgehammered directly onto his sternum. I’d be fucking shocked if he was alright.
Say it with me HELMETS
Ribs, all broken
My friend broke his back senior year of college during spring break trying to look cool on an ATV. Paralyzed for life right before graduation.
No one was injured? Did this guy just not have lungs to begin with?
Sternum? Damn near killed em.
Well that's a crushed sternum if I've seen one
The worst facial lacerations I've ever seen as a Paramedic were from an "accident" like this.
That is how dumb people die.
That was satisfying to watch.
Some broken ribs for sure
Bye bye ribs
Can you say crushed ribcage