Washington, D.C – On May 23, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) released their 2022 Report of Deaths and Injuries Involving Off-Highway Vehicles With More Than To Wheels, finding that at least 2,178 deaths were linked to off-highway vehicles (OHVs) from 2017 to 2019, and approximately 70% of the fatal incidents were associated with all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). The CPSC report also revealed that 283 children under the age of 16 lost their lives in an OHV-related incident from 2017 to 2019.

CFA leads a coalition of individuals and organizations dedicated to reducing deaths and injuries caused by OHVs. CFA’s OHV Safety Coalition tracks news reports and compiles OHV fatalities in real time. As of May 2023, the OHV Safety Coalition has identified 126 OHV fatalities this year, finding that a disproportionate amount of the fatalities are children under the age of 16.  ATV riders account for the highest number of fatalities in both the CPSC newly released data and the OHV Safety Coalition data.

“The recently released CPSC data, in addition to the work of CFA’s OHV Safety Coalition, demonstrates the urgent need for the CPSC, manufacturers, retailers, and other key stakeholders to do more to prevent these serious, sometimes fatal, incidents,” said Courtney Griffin, CFA’s Director of Consumer Product Safety. “It is imperative that we do everything we can to protect our most vulnerable.”