BERLIN TWP. -- A 12-year-old girl from New York broke her wrist and possibly lost consciousness Sunday when she crashed an ATV in Wayne County, state police at Honesdale said.
The young girl from Valley Stream lost control and hit a stone wall on Branning Road, just east of Peggy Runway Road, at 3:05 p.m. The force of the impact threw the girl, whose name was not released, from the ATV.
State police said she was not wearing her helmet properly and she lost it during the crash.
This was the first time she’s driven an ATV, her mother, Barbara Quintanilla, told state police.
Quintanilla said they were there visiting a friend and her daughter was permitted to ride the ATV.
State police did not have on update on the girl’s condition.
— JOSEPH KOHUT