In the past month, three people have died in all-terrain vehicle accidents in Utah, and a 10-year-old girl was seriously injured this week when she crashed her four-wheel ATV into a barbed wire fence.

Every year, about 1,800 Utahns are treated in emergency rooms or hospitalized for injuries suffered in off-highway vehicle crashes, including all-terrain vehicles, off-road motorcycles and snowmobiles, the Utah State Parks and the Utah Department of Health reported.

"More than a third of the OHV-related injuries we see in Utah happen to young people under the age of 19," said Jenny Johnson, spokeswoman for the Department of Health’s Violence and Injury Prevention Program.