Then, perhaps feeling just a smidge of sympathy for anyone so dumb as to show up to a dune buggy ... Sand rails and buggies went from backyard builds to kits and eventually to the side-by-sides ...

The accident occurred about 9:30 p.m. in an area known as "the flats" when two sand rails -- dune buggy-type vehicles designed for the dunes -- crashed head on, said Tillamook County Sheriff Todd ...

Sand Lake was also the scene of the Labor Day weekend's first fatality. An ATV carrying two people collided with a sand rail -- a stripped-down dune buggy built ... ATV to his side and turned ...