| All Terrain Vehicles run on low pressure tires, has a | | | | safety concern. There are no roll bars on the vehicle |
| seat for one person and has handlebars for steering | | | | and no surrounding steel like a car has to protect its |
| the vehicle. These vehicles, as evidenced by their | | | | passengers or riders. ATVs, if not operated properly, |
| name, are used for off-road adventures through the | | | | can roll over and crush the limbs or the entire body |
| muck, the mud and the earthy terrain. All Terrain | | | | of the driver. |
| Vehicles are used in many different ways including for | | | | Other concerns about ATV use is trespassing |
| sport or fun and for safety purposes. | | | | (mentioned earlier), the destruction of environmental |
| All Terrain Vehicles are not street legal in the United | | | | life, erosion of land and noise/dust pollution. A 2004 |
| States, which means that they cannot be driven on | | | | study determined that 767 people died in the United |
| any roadways that regular motor vehicles travel on. | | | | States because of injuries sustained from an All |
| All Terrain Vehicles can be driven on dirt roadways, | | | | Terrain Vehicle accident. The Consumer Product |
| through the woods, and anywhere off-road that | | | | Safety Commission released data in The New York |
| does not employ trespassing. | | | | Times in 2007 saying that 44,000 children under the |
| The first model of an ATV was manufactured in the | | | | age of 16 were injured in ATV accidents in the year |
| 1960s but they weren't as advanced and safe as | | | | of 2004 and of those 44,000 injured, 150 of them |
| they were in the 1980s and now. The first All Terrain | | | | were killed. |
| Vehicle was released to the public in 1982 by Suzuki. | | | | Aside from entertainment use or use for sport, All |
| It was the QuadRunner LT125 and it was specially | | | | Terrain Vehicles are also used by municipalities for |
| made for beginning drivers. This was the first four | | | | safety and security reasons. Police departments |
| wheel model released to the public. There have been | | | | across the country use ATVs to patrol large crowds |
| three wheel models that were manufactured by | | | | and gain access to areas not suitable for large |
| Honda in the 1970s and these models were used in | | | | vehicles. ATVs are also used by lifeguarding outfits, |
| the James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever. | | | | beach patrol outfits and the Coast Guard across the |
| Television shows such as Magnum PI and Hart 2 Hart | | | | country. The ATVs are used to patrol the beach by |
| also used three wheel All Terrain Vehicles. | | | | lifeguards and even police officers to make sure that |
| That first three wheel model from Honda was called | | | | the crowds are obeying the law and are used to get |
| the ATC90 and was manufactured for the sole | | | | to certain beaches in a moment's notice in the event |
| purpose of recreational activity. All Terrain Vehicles | | | | of an emergency. |
| are also massed produced for racing purposes. There | | | | The major manufacturers of All Terrain Vehicles are |
| are official ATV races held not only across the | | | | Arctic Cat, Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha, Polaris Industries, |
| country but also worldwide. ATVs, because there is | | | | Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Bombardier |
| no protection from the elements, are also a huge | | | | Recreational Products. |