On Saturday, May 11, 2013 Best Line Powersports/SSRTA held DCNR
Youth Certification Training at Best Line Powersports- Centre Hall location.
Fourteen students attended the training.
Trainers were George Holt, Eric Brooks, Dave Walker,
Marty Wagner & Ty Hostetter. Ed Kitchen , Forest Ranger from
Rothrock State Forest also helped with the training and made a
presentation. At the end of the class session, Ed invited everyone
outside to look at an atv. This was not just any atv, it was an atv that
a 16 year old boy lost his life.
The wrecked atv was from Perry County, Tuscarora State
Forest. The accident was investigated by Ranger Steve Shaffer. He
advised Ed Kitchen that the parents of the youth killed wanted to
utilize the atv to help prevent future accidents and deaths.
Parents and students paid close attention to Ed
speaking about the incident and how to prevent such things from
reoccuring. Hopefully, this class and the atv will have an every lasting
impression on those attending the training prevent future accidents.
The rain did not stop the children from having their
training and enjoying a great time as well. They seem to all love
the mud and enjoyed a lunch provided by Bestline and Snow Shoe Rails to
Trails.
At the end of the training all students were presented a
temporary certificate to operate an atv and also a SSRT T-Shirt
presented by Trilby Mayes (SSRTA President)
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