West Virginia

Courtney D. Clark

A 53-year-old Coal City man was killed Friday evening in an ATV accident on Whitby Road, police said.

The Raleigh County Emergency Operations Center said the accident occurred at 5:20 p.m. outside Coal City.

Robert E. Hutchens was pronounced dead upon arrival at Raleigh General Hospital.

Paul Michel Shrewsbury, Jr., 35, from Crab Orchard, was driving an ATV on Sullivan Road in Glen Morgan around 1:50 a.m. when he ran off the right edge of the road and hit the guardrail, according to the Raleigh County Sheriff's Department.

He was ejected from the ATV and went over an embankment. Officers pronounced him dead on the scene from the injuries he received in the crash.

D.K. Wright

VIOLA, WV -- Recent problems with ATV riders in the Marshall County community of Viola have prompted Sheriff John Gruzinskas to ask for assistance.

He says he wrote to the superintendent of the WV State Police, asking for help on weekends from the Moundsville detachment.

Jerry Echemann

Viola, WV -- Less than a week after a serious ATV accident in Marshall County, some residents of Viola are worried about the rest of the summer season.

Viola is a common place to see ATV's as a lot of people have them.

Dave Elias

MARSHALL COUNTY -- Sheriff John Gruzinskas says ATV riders are becoming a big problem in certain parts of the county. Over the weekend in Viola a man and woman riding an ATV struck a sheriff's patrol vehicle while the officers was issuing a ticket. The suspects got away riding a camo-colored Grizzly ATV.

Gruzinskas says in many cases riders are drinking and causing accidents. He says the riders are taking the vehicles onto roadways in remote areas of the county and warns that it can still be dangerous.

Phil Ferolito

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Give and take was the order of the day for Yakima County commissioners during a study session Tuesday morning on off-road vehicle use.

Commissioners voiced interest in lessening the role of government in approving off-road vehicle facilities, but they wouldn’t budge on expanding areas where they would be allowed.

Sarah Kapis

CLARKSBURG -- The Harrison County Commission held its first public hearing on a proposed ATV ban in Meadow Village near Good Hope.

Members of the Homeowners' Association say ATV's pose a danger to the children in their small community of 14 households.

Cheryl Caswell

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Sissonville mother has pleaded guilty to child neglect creating a substantial risk of injury or death after her four-wheeler wrecked and her two-year-old son was hurt.

Tara Thaxton, 23, was indicted by a grand jury in November and she pleaded not guilty to the charges. The ATV accident occurred in April 2007 near Thaxton's Allen's Fork home.

Justin Anderson

CHARLESTON -- A pair of lawsuits pending in Kanawha Circuit Court seek damages over separate all-terrain vehicle wrecks that involved an allegedly faulty helmet at a machine too powerful for its rider.

Sherri Dellinger and her daughter Stephanie Dellinger are suing a Mineral Wells ATV dealer, a Taiwanese helmet manufacturer and three other companies -- TransNational Trading, K.K. Motorcycle Supply and Sunbeam Trading -- for head injuries Stephanie received from a 2007 ATV accident in Wood County.