Maine Game Wardens Urge ATV Riders To Wear Helmets

Maine Public | By Ed Morin

Published July 5, 2019 at 8:51 AM EDT

Maine game wardens are urging ATV riders to wear protective headgear and maintain safe speeds after several ATV crashes Thursday, in which some riders were injured.

In a press release, warden spokesperson Corporal John MacDonald says that as a result of an ATV crash Thursday afternoon in Caribou, two 14-year- olds and a 4-year-old were injured. MacDonald says that the 4-year-old sustained a forehead laceration.

None of the riders was wearing a helmet.

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Ed Morin

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.

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