ATV Florida Forum

We were on a ride today @ Eureaka dam area, and a young man who was there about ten - fifteen minutes was seriously injured. Mostly Due to not wearing a Helmet. It only takes a second to put it in, and believe me it could be your own "LIFE" you save!
 The man was airlifted out to Gainsville. Don`t know the man, or his name he was alone. :'(
    Prayers, and thoughts to his Family.........., And All the more reason to put on the Helmet.
   

Injuries are almost happening everyday.  I hope people stop and realize that a helmet can save your life.  I hope that guy is ok.

Helmets are cr@p!!! >:(










Just kidding!! It will save your life   Plain And Simple!!

i was there today with dyno don   its a shame that people dont were helmets  the funny thing is when they were air lifting the guy out  people were still letting there kids ride with out helmets :X :oo :K people will never learn even when they see it first hand >:(

Thats a shame. Did he have a ball cap turned around backwards? It seems that there are those that believe that that offers some protection.
 I always wear mine and my kids WILL NOT ride without theirs.

Yes, everyone please wear a helmet. I am pretty sure
I would have died if not for wearing my helmet.

You be the judge:





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thats because they think "it wont happen to me"

well i learned my lesson back in middle school on a regular bike racing my friend wearing one of thos of road style helmets i fell and i guess if fell and hit my head first and i got a concussion. sad part is that i still dont remember that day not one bit.

God d**n 310!!!!! Its a shame some people. You know what they say though, "ignorance is bliss".

Oh and 310 can you say "OLD SKOOOOOOOOOOOL" :Y

Yea man, I'm old school... hehe, you found me out  :)

same here chillin!

Heres the Tree the Man Hit and No thats not paint on the tree

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Here Was His Ride out of Eurika

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Man i hope he alright.  Good thread to remind people to wear their helmets.
I crashed once when I was jumping. My helmet hit the dirt so hard I thought I knocked myself out. Im a beleiver they will save your life.

I was also there. it wasnt a pretty site, I hate to say this but these are the things that happen when you dont respect the sport. For 1 he was riding with out a helmet and 2 he was riding by himself.  Imagine there was maybe about 25 or 30 people there around the time it happend, and we all saw him sitting next to his bike as if he was working on it, after about 30 or 40mins my buddy asked him if he was alright and thats when he realized he was badly hurt.  And just like the last person sd after the helicopter left people were still riding without helmets and letting there kids ride without helmets.   We've gone to eureka before and we were the only group there, imagine if nobody was out there this guy probably wouldnt have made it.  We have a few pictures of his bike and of his getting worked on, im sure they will be posted once have them ready, i hope this message gets through to atleast one person, and they start wearing there helmet again.  Prayers to the rider and his family

This just happened over the weekend  :'(  Please don't think it can't happen to me.  My sincere condolances to the family  :'(


Woman Killed When Overturned ATV Lands On Her

POSTED: 6:43 am EST November 21, 2005

CANAVERAL GROVES, Fla. -- A woman is dead after losing control of her all terrain vehicle in Brevard County.

The Florida Highway Patrol said 41-year-old Ronnie Cox was riding the ATV along Shadwell Avenue in Canaveral Groves on Saturday night. Her ATV overturned and landed on top of her.

When her friends realized she wasn't following behind them, they began searching for her and got into a separate crash.

Two people were hurt in that accident.

my son just wrecked on his atv at croom sat. did not find out until just an hour ago that he broke his arm just below the shoulder muscle he has no pain from it other than when he tries to lift it to his side. he is one tough dude he rode his bike yesterday with one arm i say kudos for him he is luckly that he wore his helmet also

sorry to here about the arm  hope it get better real soon

Helmets save lives. It's really that simple.

If you think helmets suck or wearing one is stupid; you probably won't ever make a significant enough contyribution to this world to be missed when your head gets smashed in. 

I can't even begin to imagine the number of injuries a helmet saved me from in the past. Everything from limbs smacking my helmet as I rode through the woods to high speed get offs and rolling/sliding on my head.

DID YOU SEE IT HAPPEN? IT IS MY FRIEND

no one saw it happen he rode down in to the pit  20 min later   me and my son rode in and saw him sitting there   he was moving around  it look like he was talking on a cell phone so we rode away  1 hour latter  some one else rode down there  and saw him and went up too him  and saw  all the blood  and they got him back up too the top  so i called 911 and then  i rode down and  followed   the tire tracks for about 900 feet and found the tree he hit   do you know how he is

He was in icu sunday i saw him looked pretty bad fracherd skull broken nose jaw cracked vertabra in neck  but he does know who he is , he is coherant but can't remember what happened.

oh i thought this was going to be another retards (http://www.atvflorida.com/forum/index.php/topic,8742.0.html) thread... retards and wearing helmets.... nevermind.

Anyways its always sad to hear of deaths/injuries, expecially something related to ATVs because that definitly hurts the sport.  On the news you never hear anything good about ATVs, only the bad news.

My teacher brought in some article the other day of a 13 year old that died on an ATV.  You know article writers for the palm beach post... very little research and previous knowledge of something, and not much thought in to the article.  So of course the article wasn't 100% correct....  My teacher was saything things about ATVs that was NOT true, so i definitly corrected him, and he was shocked.  He didnt know i rode etc, he was glad i corrected him too because he doesn't like misinformation, which is what the palm beach post is mainly.

He has been planing on gettin a helment  so he could go to bostwick creek track and ride with me

Hope he gets better.  Sounds like he got lucky actually.

Alot of people ride without a helmet because they think that riding slow or just checking out a place is safe. You can be seriously injured on an atv any time or place. I have not worn my helmet out at L-cross and the worst thing is that someone driving recklessly can t-bone you while you are justing sitting on your bike.

keep us infomed of who he is doing

Sad to here this, hope he will be able to ride again.

Yeah, Like Cut said, Keep us "Posted" on how he is doing!!!!!.
 I am Glad to hear that he is doing better since saturday.

What kind of reply is      " no" ?????, If you dont want to wear a helmet thats your own STUPIDITY, But don`t be making stupid posts on a thread like that.
 

YES.

In case your wondering buddy, that's my answer to your is it stupidity question as well as the please wear a helmet thread. Now you bug off. This thread was started by one of the people that witnessed the results of the accident. It was started to possibly help save someones life. If you don't like to wear a helmet than keep your one answer responses to yourself instead of going against a thread that was started with good intentions.

Thanks for the back up Cableguy, & Cut.
 The one word response, And negativity was my problem. And Yes a helmet could save your life someday,Especially after what we all witnessed saturday.
  But thats O.K. , We all understand you and Raptor can only respond simple one word answers that are usually useless.
 Now you Bug Off, and go highjack someone elses thread!. If you dont like the thread Dont click on it , or reply to it , SIMPLE

GregsRancher, I should appologise for flying off the handle !, But this thread was started after a very Traumatic accident that many of us witnessed and was hard to take the response thats all.
 So in light of it all have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING and enjoy

i understand happy turkey day! my apologies as well.

 :P

It needs to be a law,  >:( no matter where u are or who u are. :'(

I am the wife of the man that had the accident on Saturday with his 4 wheeler, He was taken to Shands Hospital after the accident as you all know. After they got him stable he was then put in ICU, got better there then got moved to his own room. He suffers from alot of extencive facial injuries (fractures), he was doing so well as he could the doctors let him come home for the holidays, but I do have to take him back to have the reconstructive surgery on his face Monday. I will let you all know how he does through that.  ( THERE ARE NO WORDS THAT I CAN SAY TO THE MAN (KEITH) THAT WILL EXPRESS MY EXTREAM GRATITUDE FOR SAVING MY HUSBANDS LIFE. THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE FOR HIM, MY HUSBAND AND I BOTH WANT TO THANK ANYONE THAT WAS INVOLVED IN HELPING HIM. OUR PRAYERS GO OUT TO YOU ALL, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.)

we all feel it when a rider goes down and it's almost always a wake up call to the rest of us,,,I for one never even go more than a few hundred feet without a helmet on anymore, and a helmet has saved me from some injury not long ago at Big Scrub(Moose knows, he was behind me).

Please let us know how he is doing.

Id@

    As tragic as it was at least something good came out of it. I have no doubt that his story has convinced at least one if not several people to wear there helmet. For me it reminded me not to take life or my family for granted , so in a way he helped others at the same time. I know anybody that was there would have stopped to help him if they knew he was hurt. They just thought he was working on his bike. My intentions were to loan him some tools or tow him in. I was shocked when I saw how bad he was hurt. Once everyone knew he was hurt they were there to help. Cutngrs is the one that stood in the bed of his truck for better signal and directed 911 to the scene and Dynodon helped load and tie down the quad and lock up the ramps. Or the other way around. I get those two mixed up.LOL. I do know they both ride a cool DS650 like myself. LOL. Anyways I'm glad to hear he is doing better and Im sure it will make your Thanksgiving and Christmas a little more special. Good luck on the surgeries and let us know when he's up for riding.     Keith.

 Well, I am so GLAD to hear from someone that he is doing well!!!!!.
 AS cableguy said everyone thought he was working on his bike, It really shocked the hell out of most of us to find he was hurt, and really felt bad for not doing somethimg sooner!, But everyone came together as always when help was needed.
 I am also thankful that Keith stopped, that really would have killed him if he hadnt stopped.    This is why the thread was started to try to help others learn from this tragic accident, and to wear a helmet wether you like them or not!!!!
 Anyway, keep us all posted, thoughts and prayers to your family ;)

You know Gregrancher, God as you said will not make that choice for you.  He gave you a brain to use, if you dicide to walk across a busy street it is wise to look both ways.  God gave you eyes to see with, if you choose to blind fold your eyes and make run for it and get killed by a car, THAT IS NOT GODS INTENTION OR DICISION, IT IS YOURS.  God gave us helmets, wear them.

I also had reconstructive surgery on my face due to not wearing a helmet and it sucks.  I learned my leason.  We will pray for your husband and God bless him and those who helped him.

Lets not boil bad blood here, as you said Greg has the ability to make his own decisions and wether we think its a good one or not it's still his to make.

Anyone know how the man is doing now ???????

Hi , Just wanted you all to know that James made it through his surgery with no complications, his doctors were very impressed with how fast he heals, he is doing great and he is at home. He has quite alot of follow up appointments and a couple of specialists to see. But he is doing fine other than pain. Thanks again to you all for your help and prayers, they really worked.    Thank you,  Kim

Thanks for the update, Glad he`s doing well !!! ;D.  Thoughts are still there for him and your family ;D

 HEY, THE SENATOR WOMAN THAT VOTED ,AND PUSH FOR THE NO HELMET LAW, SAD 2 SAY THAT 2 MONTHS AFTER THE LAW WAZ PAST   SHE LOST HER LIFE ON A HARLEY!!!!!!!!    NO HELMET.

Helmets are a good thing my dad was in ocala on a new trail an hit a
tree sideways doing about 60

he  broke his wrist
he would have died if not for his helmet i say i am a strong beliver i helmets