View Full Version : 17-year-old dies in Western Pa
quaddict53
07-09-2003, 05:09 AM
About an hour ago i heard on the radio that a 17 year old kid was riding his quad last night(Tuesday) and never came home. They found his body in the creek this morning a short distance from his flipped quad. This happened in Westmoreland County, PA. I don't know the details or his name, but I think we should keep his family in our prayers.
250x#93
07-09-2003, 05:17 AM
Boy thats very sad, I wonder who it was:confused:
tants
07-09-2003, 05:36 AM
im sorry to here that...
but thats why you should never ride alone :o
QuadTrix6
07-09-2003, 05:41 AM
:( :ermm: man i hate hearing about stuff like this :(
Honda4trax250x
07-09-2003, 05:45 AM
thats too bad, i guess his helmet (if he had one on) didnt help
more fuel to the ATV ban fire
CowsBitePeople
07-09-2003, 05:52 AM
Originally posted by QuadTrix6
:( :ermm: man i hate hearing about stuff like this :(
:(
Yea, I heard about this too on the radio. NONE of the reports are saying his death was caused by the ATV though, but they seem to mention it was there. I'll be following this story a bit.... my neck of the woods. :(
toby400ex
07-09-2003, 06:25 AM
thats sofa king messed up:ermm:
blondie69
07-09-2003, 06:28 AM
awh thats sad to hear:(
i heard about this 12 yr old gurl that died here a few weeks ago somewhere here in NS i think. She fell off the back of a utility or something?:confused: I never caught the whole story
Narly R
07-09-2003, 06:38 AM
Thats too bad, but like Tants said thats why you shouldnt ride alone!:(
hondafox440
07-09-2003, 06:57 AM
Originally posted by tants
im sorry to here that...
but thats why you should never ride alone :o
Word.
Tommy 17
07-09-2003, 07:52 AM
:( i just saw it on the news... dang...
Martin Blair
07-09-2003, 07:57 AM
thats to bad last weekend here in the midwest the governer or Missouri got hurt riding in a trailer behind a 4wheeler, What ever happend to the atv ban di the cpsc quit trying to ban them?
Originally posted by Tommy 17
:( i just saw it on the news... dang...
Hell, I thought it might have been you man...lmao
nismo
07-09-2003, 08:07 AM
a few weeks ago (4 or 5) a 20something year old broke his neck then died on his raptor going down the road (some how he hit a rock then flew off and he hit a tree) i hate to hear these things
Flip)(stick
07-09-2003, 08:18 AM
Originally posted by Honda4trax250x
thats too bad, i guess his helmet (if he had one on) didnt help
more fuel to the ATV ban fire
yup
250x#93
07-09-2003, 08:25 AM
A big storm came threw western pa last night though:o So if he got caught in it or sumthin it wouldn't have helped any:(
quaddict53
07-09-2003, 09:55 AM
Does anyone know exactly what happened yet? Was the ATV the cause of death or what? Yeah those storms were really bad I'd hate to get caught in those....I wonder if they had anything to do with the accident?
Before I heard what part of PA it happened in, I also thought of Tommy!!!....lol!!!
quaddict53
07-09-2003, 10:06 AM
Just found out that he was ridin without a helmet and flipped from a gravel road into the creek. The news said that he may have been goin "too fast for conditions".
BTW....for all the western PA riders, in about an hour at 6 pm, NBC(WPXI) is airing a segment on why ATV's are dangerous....this should be inaccurate and one-sided.....:rolleyes:
Tommy 17
07-09-2003, 10:07 AM
nah wasn't me... about 45 mins south west of me though...
i was ridign yesterday also:eek2:
400exmom
07-09-2003, 10:18 AM
my bud just got killed on his quad last sat. he had over 400 acres he let anyone ride on and he was in the dried out river bed at nite and caught a cable round his neck.. all his buds were there to see it happen and he left a 50 ft trail of blood from his quad. im sure he never knew what hit him but his family are beside themselves in shock so please keep the kliens in yer thought also.. thanx:(
CHAUNCY
07-09-2003, 10:28 AM
:(
dirtriderex
07-09-2003, 10:52 AM
dang, where did this happen. 400exmom
400exmom
07-09-2003, 10:57 AM
spring bay illinois, east of the ill. river
marksuttonjr
07-09-2003, 01:02 PM
I hate to hear about people getting killed on quads. It hits realy close to home when I hear about it because I've lost 2 good friends to ATV accidents.
Originally posted by tants
im sorry to here that...
but thats why you should never ride alone :o
yeah bad news ..:(
I rode alone quite often...even survived a brokencollarbone once ...had to ride about 4 miles thru the woods w/it ..
MAN talk about pain ..:mad:
if I died on my four wheeler I would die happy :) .......... Thats what I tell my parents & my grandma who hate my 4 wheeler
Ralph
07-09-2003, 01:52 PM
Originally posted by Tommy 17
:( i just saw it on the news... dang...
damn.... i was hoping,,, i mean i was fearing it was tommy:blah:
bowhunterr2001
07-09-2003, 02:21 PM
"FAYETTE COUNTY, Pa. -- Around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, search crews found the body and all-terrain vehicle of a missing Fayette County boy.
Adrian Adams, 17, of Vanderbilt, was riding his ATV Tuesday evening, right before strong storms hit the area, and hasn't been heard from since.
Search teams began to look for him Tuesday night, but severe weather forced them to stop.
Search teams used ATVs and search dogs to comb a 6-mile area for Adams.
Around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, police identified the body found to be that of Adams.
Pennsylvania has the second highest number of ATV accidents in the last several years.
In 2000, there were 21 fatal accidents. That number climbed to 30 in 2001 before falling off to 17 last year"
Complements of WPXI.com
He was trying to get home before the storm hit , he veered off the trail rolled down an embankment into a creek where they are saying he drowned...Rider did not have a helmet on, and was riding a Predator500...
Flyin#3-1/2
07-09-2003, 02:57 PM
:( man that stuff sucks so much:(
i would not like to ride in Pennsylvania, seems like that place is bad luck with quads considering all those fatalities....i've only gotten close to being seriously hurt a couple times, and i rarely ever ride without someone else. that guy should've never hurried home in the conditions he was in....:(
250x#93
07-09-2003, 03:15 PM
Originally posted by Flyin#3-1/2
:( man that stuff sucks so much:(
i would not like to ride in Pennsylvania, seems like that place is bad luck with quads considering all those fatalities....i've only gotten close to being seriously hurt a couple times, and i rarely ever ride without someone else. that guy should've never hurried home in the conditions he was in....:(
No, man its wonderfull ridin here all kinds of good ol stripmines and ****:devil:
This is allways sad to hear.
I wonder when all the news people and politicians will realize that this sport is no more dangerous than any others and the injuries and fatalities are a mere percentage of hiway auto statistics.
You know its coming soon, first it was mandatory seatbelt use and next is helmet laws in cars. Maybe even in your bath tub one day too just incase you slip. Just picture that one :D
I feel for the riders and their families and though I realize its newsworty I just wish the press would stop overplaying this stuff both in respect to the families and to stop hurting our sport.
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