Apparently “kiddos” in one Wisconsin community have made a game of trying to scare Amish buggy horses. “Kiddos” is the word the police department uses; “juveniles” is from the report at wearegreenbay.com: FREDERIC, Wis. (WFRV) – Authorities in northwestern Wisconsin are urging parents to speak with their children after receiving multiple reports of juveniles jumping in front of Amish horses and riding dirt bikes close…
There’s an important update to the tragic story of three Amish siblings killed in a crash in northern Indiana. It turns out the driver of the vehicle was a 17-year-old girl named Sienna O’Connor. There’s always a lot of speculation when these accidents happen. Was the person speeding? Were they texting? Were drugs or alcohol involved? According to a statement made on Facebook by the…
Horrible news from the Nappanee, Indiana Amish community. From WNDU: MARSHALL COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) – The Marshall County coroner says the three kids who were killed in a crash this morning involving a car and an Amish buggy were all siblings from Bremen. They’ve been identified as 13-year-old Glenda Jo Yoder, 10-year-old Darrell Yoder and 9-year-old Devon Yoder. The crash happened just after 8 a.m….
From WWMT: VAN BUREN COUNTY, Mich. — A young girl is dead and a boy is in critical condition after a buggy crash. A 31-year-old Mattawan woman was arrested for “suspected substance use” after she rear-ended an Amish buggy on County Road 215 and 60th Avenue Wednesday, killing an 8-year-old girl and critically injuring a 12-year-old boy who were both passengers in the buggy, according…
A man wanted on multiple serious charges led police on a high-speed chase in a remote part of Maine – with the pursuit ending after he hit an Amish wagon carrying six children. Fortunately, somehow no one was hurt, which doesn’t sound like what you’d expect after learning that speeds reached 90 MPH. From Fox 23: Police say they spotted 34-year-old Anthony Vangel of Easton…
From the Minnesota Star-Tribune: A 36-year-old woman is pleading guilty to concocting an identity-swapping scheme with her twin sister to deceive law enforcement about who was actually driving an SUV that hit an Amish buggy in southeastern Minnesota, killing two of the four children aboard. Sarah Beth Petersen, 36, of Kellogg, Minn., pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon in Fillmore County District Court to two counts of…
The buggy was empty at the time, thankfully (especially after recent stories of runaway buggies with Amish children inside). However the driver of the truck was seriously injured when it struck the buggy. From WNEM: CLARE CO., Mich. (WNEM) – A man was injured and a horse died in a crash involving a vehicle and an Amish horse and buggy in Clare County on Friday….
The one-year-old baby was thrown from the buggy along with her mother. The baby survived with minor injuries…while her mother lost her life. From the New York State Police: On October 28, 2024, at about 4:15 p.m., State Police in Herkimer responded to Butler Road in the town of Newport for a crash involving a motor vehicle and an Amish Buggy. A preliminary investigation revealed…
A non-Amish man sees a tragedy waiting to unfold in his Wisconsin community – and is trying to prevent it. As reported at WKOW, Jim Kostohrys says this “blind curve” & hill – right before drivers reach an Amish school – are a potentially deadly combo. Have a look. Just past it, dozens of Amish children walk to, or get dropped off at school each…
I can’t highlight every Amish buggy accident, because sadly there are just too many of them. But I wanted to draw attention to this story for a pair of reasons. One is that it’s my home state of North Carolina. You don’t hear about buggy accidents so much in NC, simply because the Amish population is so small. The buggy accident happened two weeks…