Additional Information

• According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average two-stroke motor dumps 25 to 30 percent of its fuel mixture unburned into the air and water. Furthermore, a dirt bike with a two-stroke motor is likely to produce eight times more carbon monoxide pollution than the average car.

  • Please click the link below to download an analysis of the potential for soil and ground water contamination prepared by, Perrin W. Gower III, P.G.

    • Contamination Analysis

• Residents from communities that have in place motocross  facilities provided detailed legal testimonies on how disturbing the sounds of this sport are to a residential area.  Citizens testified that the noise was annoying, intolerable, and irritating.
  • Read lawsuit #1
  • Read lawsuit #2
  • Read lawsuit #3
  • An informative analysis on sound travel (recommended read)
• The documents below contain articles regarding the controversy surrounding a proposed motocross park in Augusta County, located in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
  • Article 1 (News Leader - local paper)
  • Article 2 (News Leader - local paper)
  • Article 3 (News Leader - local paper)
  • Article 4 (News Leader - local paper)
  • Article 5 (News Leader - local paper)
  • Article 6 (NBC 29 - local television station)
• The following links lead to websites of concerned citizens that fought similar developments in their respective localities.
  • Maltby
  • Mt. Loop Conservancy

• The document below contains an article discussing alcohol problems at a supercross event.
  • Alcohol Issues

• The following story was reported by North Carolina television station, WITN.

• 2/6/2008 - A ten-year-old motocross racer from Pennsylvania who was hurt while practicing in North Carolina has died. John Barto Junior says his son, Wyatt, died of head injuries Monday at the University of North Carolina Medical Center. Wyatt Barto was ranked 32nd in the nation in his division two years ago. He was returning to racing after a shoulder injury. His father says Wyatt was practicing in Henderson, NC when he crashed on a jump he had been completing all day.

• A two-year medical study covering 270 patients of motocross accidents came to the following conclusion, "Although the overall mortality is low, the morbidity is high, with a large proportion of patients requiring surgery." The same study also provided the following injury statistics:
  • 52% of cases involved trauma to appendages
  • 33% of cases involved closed head trauma
  • 23% of cases involved blunt chest trauma
  • 15% of cases involved abdominal trauma
  • 14% of cases involved spinal trauma
  • 8% of cases involved pelvic trauma
  • 36% of cases required surgery 

  The following link leads to a video advertising motocross accidents: http://www.shredordie.com/videos/83a4cca2d0