This story from Columbiana County, Ohio, where police said a local man, diagnosed as legally blind, died after crashing his all-terrain vehicle.
Chief Deputy Allen Haueter said Hoyle was with two friends behind a home on Steubenville Pike when he asked one of his friends if he could ride his ATV.
But Haueter said Hoyle didn’t have a license to drive, and that he was considered legally blind.
Haueter told NEWS9 the men helped Hoyle onto the ATV anyways and warned him to go slow, but Hoyle didn't listen.
“When the men put Mr. Hoyle on there, he took off, full acceleration,” said Haueter. “And they were screaming at him to hold back and stop, and they couldn't catch up to him. Then he struck a smaller tree and he hit a larger one head-on.
His friends, in addition to being stupid, we're also drunk. I love that they encouraged him to go slow. If this story doesn't convince you its time to take ATVs out of the hands of the blind, I don't know what will.
