WV ATV DEATH TOLL RECORD 52

(11/14/2006)
Twenty-nine-year-old Jeremiah Phillips of Elkins died at a Morgantown hospital Saturday afternoon, a day after he was thrown from his ATV near Beverly.

Phillips' death brought West Virginia's all-terrain-vehicle-related death toll to a record high of 52.

State Police Sergeant G.L. Stalnaker says a passenger was also thrown from the vehicle but was not critically injured.