MCCLELLANVILLE — A teenager killed while riding an all-terrain vehicle early Sunday had tried to drive up an embankment and lost control, the Charleston County Sheriff's Office said.
The Coroner's Office said Joshua Thomas, 17, died of head injuries in the 2 a.m. incident.
The Sheriff's Office said Thomas was riding a Yamaha Big Bear on the dikes off Old Cemetery Road near S.C. Highway 45.
"The ATV rolled back, he fell off and ATV fell on top of him," sheriff's Maj. John Clark said.
On April 7 last year, an 8-year-old girl was killed in an ATV accident at McClellanville Baptist Church Cemetery, in the same general area.
Oriana Small was riding an all-terrain vehicle with a 14-year-old girl. They crashed, and the vehicle fell into a drainage ditch with water in it. Authorities said that the younger girl was not breathing when rescuers pulled her from the ditch and that she died at a hospital about two hours later.
South Carolina lawmakers passed a law last year that would have required children ages 6 to 15 to complete an ATV safety course and wear a helmet and eye protection while riding. But Gov. Mark Sanford vetoed it. The law would have banned children age 5 and younger from operating the popular off-road vehicles.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recorded 13 deaths from ATV accidents in South Carolina from 2002 through 2005. The Commission recorded 555 ATV-related deaths in the United States in 2006. Most happened when the vehicles overturned.
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