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Article: States open ATV safety campaign
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 20, 1987
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Attorneys general from 23 states, including Illinois, have
launched a drive to reduce accidents involving all-terrain vehicles,
which they said have killed 800 people in the nation, including 17 in
Illinois.
The officials, all members of the National Association of
Attorneys General consumer protection committee, announced Monday
they have sent a letter to the president of American Honda Motor Co.,
inviting him to meet with them in California to discuss ATV safety.
"Many experts state that ATVs have serious design flaws which
render them unsafe due to instability," the letter to Honda President
Yoshide Munekin said.
It said that 44 percent of the 800 people killed since 1982 were ...