Horse Tramples Person At Pennsylvania Amish Farm; Life Flight Grounded By Clouds
Emergency crews in central Pennsylvania were called to an Amish farm on Saturday evening after a person was run over by a horse.
The call came in shortly after 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 27, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Responders were drawn from both Dauphin and neighboring Perry County.
A few details, per PennLive, citing county 911 dispatchers:
The call, reported as a traumatic injury, came in shortly after 5 p.m. along the 700 block of South Kentucky Drive in Washington Township, Dauphin County. …
Dispatchers later said a person at an Amish farm was run over by horse and was bleeding from their head.
A medical helicopter was put on standby at about 5:25 p.m., but LifeLion had to abort due to cloud coverage.
Dispatchers said they were trying to find another helicopter that could fly.
Dauphin County is home to a sizeable Lancaster daughter/sister settlement, of around 1,900 people.
Run-overs and animal-related accidents are a recurring reality on Amish farms, where families live and work in close proximity to large draft animals and horse-drawn equipment.
Just last month, a three-year-old Amish boy was airlifted after being run over by a horse-drawn planter in Centre County, Pennsylvania. Last November, an Amish girl in Wisconsin died after being run over by a corn wagon, while in spring of last year an individual sustained injuries at a Lancaster County farm after being run over by a wagon weighing thousands of pounds.
Few details have been released so far, and the condition of the injured person is not yet known. Will update this post if and when more becomes known.
