Article: 4-wheeler accident: Helmet a life-saver: The crash drives home a big lesson for mother and daughter -- a lesson a Tulsa doctor says more people should be heeding.

Byline: Kim Archer

Jun. 4--The helmet has a couple of deep gashes where it hit the tree.

Little else reveals the magnitude of what that headgear did for Allanna White, 14, during a ride on a four-wheeler at a picnic in Hominy.

"If she wasn't wearing that helmet, she wouldn't be here," said the girl's mother, Loretta Hauptmann.

The Skiatook woman still shudders when she thinks of that day a little more than two weeks ago, the day her daughter took her first all-terrain vehicle ride.

"She just pressed the button and it took off. She lost control and rammed into a tree head-on. The four-wheeler was still running, and it kept ...

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