Pretzel company founder recovering after Pa. crash

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — The founder of national soft pretzel franchise Auntie Anne’s says she’s thankful she was wearing a helmet when she was in a motorcycle accident in central Pennsylvania.

Sixty-one-year-old Anne Beiler suffered a concussion, a broken rib and a broken collarbone in Saturday’s crash in Gap, Pa.

But she says it could have been much worse if she hadn’t had a helmet on.

Beiler says she’s a big advocate for helmets and doesn’t think she’d be here if she hadn’t been wearing one Saturday.

Lancaster-based Auntie Anne’s says it is the world’s largest franchiser of hand-rolled soft pretzels with more than 1,000 locations worldwide.