Charlotte woman latest victim to die after crash at ATV park in SC, coroner says

For the second time in October a person has died at an ATV park in South Carolina, according to the Fairfield County Coroner’s Office.

Larissa Cubas, a 28-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina, died last weekend in what Coroner Chris Hill called an accident.

The crash happened Oct. 25 at Carolina Adventure World, Hill said Tuesday in a news release.

The wreck

Cubas was driving an ATV at the park when the vehicle rolled over and landed on her, according to the release.

The Charlotte woman was pinned underneath the ATV, the coroner’s office said. Although emergency medical crews responded to the ATV park and provided aid to Cubas, she died at the scene, the coroner’s office said.

No other injuries were reported.

The crash continues to be investigated by the coroner’s office. An autopsy has been scheduled to be performed in Newberry to determine a cause of death, Hill said.

Carolina Adventure World calls itself the “Southeast’s largest outdoor playground,” with more than 120 miles of off-road ATV, UTV and dirt bike trails. It’s in Winnsboro, about 40 miles north of Columbia.

Past victims

This is not the first death reported at Carolina Adventure World.

Earlier this month a 33-year-old Columbia man died in what the coroner’s office called an accident on a dirt bike trail. The man was driving an ATV when the vehicle crashed, according to the coroner’s office. Further information about the wreck was not available, but the man was taken from the ATV park by EMS then airlifted by helicopter to Prisma Health Richland hospital where he died.

In July 2022, 35-year-old Charlotte man died at the Midlands ATV park after the vehicle he was riding flipped over and landed on him, the coroner’s office said.

In February 2022, two South Carolina men were killed in a crash. A 32-year-old from Little River was driving an ATV with a 46-year-old from Longs on board as a passenger when they lost control and the ATV crashed through a gate and went down a 30-foot embankment, the coroner’s office said.

The ATV rolled over numerous times, ejecting both men who died at the scene, according to the coroner’s office.

In August 2021, a 22-year-old Charlotte man was a passenger on an ATV and died after he was thrown from the vehicle after the driver lost control, the coroner’s office said.

Another death was reported in 2020, when a 23-year-old Charlotte man was killed in collision. He was pinned under a vehicle after it flipped at the Midlands ATV park.