According to this article in the Montreal Gazette, “ATVs have adapted to safety concerns.” The article says manufacturers have heard complaints about the ATVs (noise, rut marks, and concerns over safety), and “in the last few years, the design and use of ATVs has evolved, providing a more family-friendly and safe environment.”
One example of manufacturers’ concern for safety that the article cites is “Yamaha’s Rhino 700 includes seatbelts and a cage around the passengers for additional safety.” How about that? After having multiple deaths and serious crushing injuries, the nice people at Yamaha are now providing a cage around passengers for additional safety. I wonder whether Yamaha would be spending money on improving safety if it weren’t for the multitude of Yamaha Rhino lawsuits that have been filed by injured people and others who have lost family members to death in a Yamaha Rhino rollover accident
Unfortunately, Yamaha did not exhibit this concern for safety in previous years, when it sold Rhinos without side doors to protect occupants from having their arms, legs and spinal cords crushed in rollover accidents. The article also fails to mention the narrow wheel base and high center-of-gravity that makes Yamaha Rhino ATVs particularly prone to tip over. We at the ATV Attorney Alliance continue to call on Yamaha to recall Rhinos to make changes that will make them reasonable safe for people to use. We also call upon Yamaha to modify the design to eliminate the narrow wheel-base, high center-or-gravity design that makes Yamaha Rhino ATVs prone to rollover accidents when people are driving as slow as eleven miles per hour on level ground.
If you or someone in your family has been injured in a Yamaha Rhino ATV accident or other accident caused by a defectively designed ATV, or you have lost a member of your family due to such an accident, you can use our free ATV lawsuit review form to get a no-obligation review of your potential lawsuit by lawyers of the ATV Attorney Alliance.
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