ATV Accident with No Helmet Results in Child’s Death
Haylee Dawn Ledford, a 7-year-old killed in an ATV accident near George Poston Park in Lowell, North Carolina on January 12, 2008, was not wearing a helmet as required by law, Gaston County Police reported this week. The little girl died from severe head injuries, according to an autopsy performed Monday.
She was a passenger on the ATV driven by her mother Diane Whitson’s boyfriend Charles Scott Rollins, 36, who lives near the park at 200 Rhyne-Oakland Road. They were riding in the county park at about 4:40 p.m. when the ATV overturned.
“Right now we know its head trauma that killed her,” said Gaston County Police Sgt.
Christie Rhoney. “She was pronounced dead at the scene. That’s how severe it was.”
“They should have been wearing helmets,” Rhoney said.
Riding an ATV without a helmet is against state law in North Carolina and many other states. Signs posted at the park say riding motorized vehicles there is prohibited, as well.
As of the writing of this blog, Rollins was charged with felony involuntary manslaughter, trespassing with an ATV, and an ATV helmet violation, according to the Gaston County Police Department.
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