OTISFIELD – No citations will be issued following an ATV crash that sent a brother and sister from New Jersey to the hospital Tuesday morning.

State Trooper Ron Turnick, who investigated the accident, said no laws were broken that he was aware of. Given the circumstances of the children’s visit to Maine to attend their grandmother’s funeral, the investigation was concluded and no citations will be issued.

Turnick said state law mandates that children 16 and under on a ATV must wear helmets, and the three children were wearing helmets. He said state law further states children between the ages of 10 and 16 may operate an ATV as long as they are accompanied by an adult. In this case the children’s uncle, Travis Cummings of Otisfield, was in front of the victims, including the 13-year-old driver.

Turnick said there was no reason to cite the uncle or anyone else involved at the crash scene.

Turnick said it appeared the driver, Kyle Nowlin, had only driven an ATV about three times before. His inexperience and perhaps speed, estimated to be about 30 miles per hour at the time of the accident, played a role in the crash, he said.

Kyle and his sister Kelsey, 10, were taken by medical helicopter to Central Maine Medical Center where they were each treated for a broken femur, according to Cummings.