All About Atvs

July, 2003

We are one of the groups responsible for the report about the dangers of all-terrain vehicles that James R. Petersen dismissed in "Safety Thugs" (The Playboy Forum, April). One of his more egregious errors is his assertion that because ATV sales have increased during the past several years, the injury rate per machine has gone down. While an ATV safety report that was released in January by the Consumer Product Safety Commission accounted for this growth in sales, the report found no d...