Five Months After Hit-and-Run Killed a Horse and Left An Amish Rider With Two Broken Legs, Driver Faces Charges

You can run, but there’s a good chance they’ll catch you. Drivers in hit-and-run buggy wrecks keep finding out that hard truth.

The latest (allegedly) to do so comes to us from Nicholas County, Kentucky. The crash happened this past October, with the driver’s vehicle, a Dodge Ram pickup, being found shortly after.

The accident wasn’t pretty. The horse was killed, and three Amish riders in the buggy were injured.

One was described as being “seriously” injured and hospitalized. Another was left with both legs broken (which also sounds like a “serious” injury to me, but maybe that doesn’t rise to the level of “serious” if the person wasn’t hospitalized).

Now comes news that the driver is in custody, and has been indicted on several felony charges. From Fox 56:

LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — A Lexington man has been indicted in connection with an Amish buggy hit-and-run that happened back in October.

FOX 56 previously reported that a vehicle had crashed into a buggy from behind around 11:50 p.m. in October 2025, and the driver fled the scene.

More on the driver and the charges he’ll now face:

Authorities identified Edgar Carson, 44, as the driver. …

He was indicted on Monday, March 16, with leaving the scene of an accident, tampering with physical evidence, failure to maintain required insurance, and first-degree persistent felony offender charges.

Carson is being held in custody on a $20,000 bond, with arraignment coming in early April.

I did not see a separate report of the driver being apprehended, so I assume this news is meant to cover both. It’s unclear if he was just now apprehended, or if it happened some time ago. It may be very recently that he was found.

He’s fortunate that “only” a horse was killed. I do wonder in particular about the person who was seriously injured, and how he or she has recovered. That information is not given in public sources.

They keep hitting and running

Drivers hit Amish buggies and flee the scene, as they do with vehicles. We see examples often enough.

A woman in New York was charged in such a case which injured an Amish man in January. Last summer, a DUI hit-and-run driver left behind three injured Amish children in a neighboring county of Kentucky. And in another ongoing case, a driver has pleaded guilty to charges in a hit-and-run crash that claimed an Iowa Amish teen’s life.

But I have wondered if drivers who do this, are more likely to flee a buggy wreck than they would a car wreck. For one, there is no dash cam in a buggy.

There may also be the influence, conscious or subconscious, of the idea that the Amish are “different”, or “other”, as it’s often termed.

Maybe some think that since the Amish are different than , they may have a better chance of getting away with it in the moment. A largely erroneous belief that the Amish don’t involved law enforcement may feed into this as well.