Quote Originally Posted by Bony View Post
I don't disagree Frank, many roll-overs occur here because one wheel, usually the front, drops into a rabbit burrow. Speed, kids riding, no helmet and inexperience also contribute. Deaths are little publicised as they're not counted towards traffic crash statistics unless occurring on a public road, albiet illegally as ATVs cannot be road registered.
Over in Kuwait while I was there the kids would soup up their buggies as they were called to run over 120KMH. It was a regular occurrence to see from 1 to several racing on the streets on their back wheels only. or slew them over and ride on the 2 wheels on 1 side or the other, every acrobatic stunt known to man was tried on those things. It got so bad that the Police were ordered not to chase them for fear that they could cause an accident in the process, but to try and clear traffic until the kids had, had their fill of fun and moved on. All this did was server to empower the kids to do more dangerous stunts. It settled down for a while when the ministry issued a confiscation or destroy order for any ATV or motorcycle identified in the traffic cameras as having been ridden in stunts on the motorways, but that order didn't last very long