On Saturday a Bridgeport man was killed in an ATV accident in Monroe.
According to Monroe police, the accident happened around 6 p.m. when 29 year old John Compton, together with a two girls, aged two and six, were riding an ATV on Turkey Roost Road. Compton then hit a curb in the dark and the quad rolled over and all three were thrown off.
Compton was unresponsive in the road when police arrived, and CPR was performed. He was taken to St. Vincent Hospital where he died of his injuries. The two girls were not seriously injured but were taken to area hospitals, treated and released to their parents.
There have been both deaths and injuries from ATVs in the area last year, including a Western Connecticut State University football player who was killed in June while riding on his family’s farm in Ellington.
Between 1982, when ATVs first became popular, and 2011, the last year for which information is available, 44 people died as a result of ATV accidents in Connecticut, and of that number, seven were 16 and younger.
Looking at the statistics across the nation, there were 11,688 ATV fatalities for the same period, with 2,865 of the victims 16 and younger and 1,226 under the age of 12.
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