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Thursday, July 23, 2015

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Death of Uxbridge boy sparks push for new ATV laws

Tyler Massey Law would set minimum age limit for riders

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UXBRIDGE -- Uxbridge's Tyler Massey, 9, was killed in an ATV accident on June 14. A trust fund has been set up in his name to help the family pay for funeral costs. To donate send an e-transfer to ironarmplumbing@hotmail.com, password Tyler. June 2015

Uxbridge Times Journal

By Moya Dillon

UXBRIDGE -- An online petition is calling for new legislation that would set minimum age limits for ATV riders following the death of Uxbridge’s Tyler Massey last month.

Tyler, 9, was killed in an ATV accident on June 14. A website written in his voice urges people to sign a petition calling for new legislation called the Tyler Massey Law, which would bar children under 14 from riding full-size ATVs.

“I was born on May 9, 2006, I am forever nine years old,” reads the introduction on the website, which goes on to say that organizers hope the new law could save the lives of other children like Tyler.

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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

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Cottager uses mop to save ATV rider from lake

JOELLE KOVACH, QMI AGENCY

FIRST POSTED: SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2015 12:10 AM EST | UPDATED: SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2015 12:18 AM EST

BUCKHORN, Ont. ─ An Ontario cottager who saved a man who'd fallen through the ice on Friday says there was only one tool used in the rescue: a household mop.

Dan Greene was at his Buckhorn Lake cottage around 5 p.m. Friday when he looked out his window and saw a man driving an all-terrain vehicle on the ice.

One moment the man was fine and the next he was submerged.

Greene, 54, said he frantically tried finding a piece of rope or something he could use to pull the man out but turned up nothing.

So he grabbed a red-handled mop from the kitchen and ran for the shoreline.

He still can't believe it worked. He figures the man probably weighs somewhere between 280 and 300 pounds.

"Just a mop handle and a 300-pound guy," he said. "I don't know how we did it."

Greene said first he ran about 40 or 50 feet out onto the ice toward the submerged man and the ATV, and got close enough to go down on his belly and extend the mop head.

The man ─ a stranger whose name Greene never got ─ managed to grab onto the mop and allow himself to be pulled from the water.

But then the ice cracked under his weight and he plunged in again.

Greene said he tried extending the mop a second time and the same thing happened.

By then Greene was worried for his own safety, but third time was the charm. The man was wet and freezing, but safe.

That's when Greene ran up to his cottage, called 911 and grabbed some blankets. He said emergency crews were there in no time to take it from there.

"They were excellent," Greene said of the firefighters, police and paramedics who arrived. "And they told him he was a lucky guy."

Buckhorn Lake is about 173 km northeast of Toronto.

joelle.kovach@sunmedia.ca

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

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MPP Clark seeks support for ATV regulation change

St. Lawrence News

News – Steve Clark believes it’s an issue of treating new classes of ATVs fairly.

The Leeds-Grenville MPP has launched a petition in support of a private member’s bill to update a section of the Highway Traffic Act. The bill was introduced by Clark’s Progressive Conservative colleague, Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP Norm Miller; it proposes to amend the act by allowing side-by-side, four-seat side-by-side and two-up ATVs on Ontario roadways under the same conditions as other all-terrain vehicles.

Clark emphasized that updating the act would not increase the number of roadways on which ATVs could operate in Ontario; that remains the authority of municipalities.

“This is an issue I have been speaking out about and calling for action on since the legislature unanimously supported a motion to change this regulation more than a year ago,” the Leeds-Grenville MPP stated in a release.

Miller’s private member’s bill is scheduled to have second reading debate at Queen’s Park on Feb. 26. Clark indicated he is disappointed that the Liberal government has not acted on the matter but pleased that the bill will be discussed next month. “I look forward to bringing the support from ATV enthusiasts across Leeds-Grenville to that debate,” the local MPP stated.

Clark noted that the proposal, which is supported by the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, would provide a boosts to rural Ontario’s tourism sector because it increases opportunities for new classes of ATVs.

“Owners should be able to legally use their vehicles to access woodlots, trails and hunting and fishing destinations,” the petition reads in part.

Copies of the petition can be downloaded from Clark’s website at www.steveclarkmpp.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Petition_Bill_58.pdf. The MPP is asking that signed copies of the petition be delivered to his office at 100 Strowger Boulevard in Brockville.