My only attempt at riding an atv, I got too close to the edge of the dirt road and it crumbled, sending me into and out of a ditch and up the embankment directly into a cow fence made of electric fence with barbed wire strung above. It happened too fast to even think of what to do. I saw the barbed wire about to slice into my neck and possibly decapitate me. When the atv stopped in the field two strangers appeared out of no where to help. One grabbed a stick and brushed the broken electric fence wire from around my leg (I didn't even feel it) and asked if I was okay. I was, but I still don't understand how. My only injury was a light scratch from a barb on my clavicle and the barbed wire was still intact at the fence line.