An Amish infant riding in a buggy had to be airlifted to a Nashville hospital – after a car struck the buggy Wednesday morning in Barren County, Kentucky. And it’s the second crash involving an Amish buggy in the county in eight days. The collision happened on Old Bowling Green Road. K105 places it a little over seven miles southwest of Glasgow, which is the…
A quick-thinking driver likely saved an Amish horse’s life earlier today – and possibly the lives of other drivers on a well-trafficked Ohio interstate. An Amish horse ran onto the busy highway early Tuesday morning after an SUV struck its buggy in Ashland County, Ohio. But a passing driver used his own car to hold the horse against the guardrail until troopers arrived. The crash happened…
A nine-week-old girl was seriously hurt yesterday (Friday) morning when her family’s buggy was rear-ended on a state highway in Ashland County, Ohio. The reporting describes what sounds like a serious wreck: “The impact tore the buggy apart, scattering pieces along about 100 feet of roadway and shoulder.” The baby was one of four people in the buggy; she has been hospitalized. Ashland County Pictures…
A month after a pickup truck struck an Amish buggy outside Canton, New York, killing a grandmother and her young grandson, one woman from the buggy is still in intensive care, and tragically, there has been a third fatal victim – a pregnant woman has lost her baby. The information on these women comes from a neighbor, who spoke to St. Lawrence County lawmakers at…
Days after a wreck left two Amish women in critical condition in southern Michigan, another Amish woman is the victim in a buggy crash in the state. But this time it was a deadly incident. A 22-year-old Amish woman was killed Thursday afternoon after a vehicle struck her horse-drawn buggy in Sanilac County. Michigan State Police say the driver reportedly fell asleep at the wheel. From…
Sadly, southern Michigan has seen another bad buggy accident. Two Amish women from Montgomery, Michigan, ages 50 and 19, were airlifted from the scene after an SUV rear-ended their buggy Monday morning in Hillsdale County. Both are in critical condition. From WILX: The crash happened around 9:15 a.m. on Territorial Road near Mead Road in Camden Township, according to police. Troopers from the Jackson post…
Another tragic crash, this time out of Illinois. A 29-year-old Amish schoolteacher was killed Tuesday morning in a buggy crash in Wayne County, Illinois. Two of her students were riding with her. They were flown to a hospital with serious injuries. The crash was reported at around 7:09 a.m. on County Highway 16, west of the village of Johnsonville, according to WFIW radio in Fairfield….
State Police have identified the two children killed in last Friday’s buggy crash in Oswego County, New York. It turns out that they are brother and sister. Anna J. Hershberger, 13, and Moses J. Hershberger, 7, were pronounced dead at the scene. There is a bit of good news in the new reports: a 9-year-old girl who was critically injured is now listed in stable…
More awful news out of New York. Another buggy crash in the state claimed two more lives today – this time two young children, ages 7 and 13. A van struck two buggies this morning (Friday September 25) in Richland in Oswego County, New York. The state has been seeing a lot of this lately. Just twelve days ago, a grandmother and her grandson lost…
New details have been released on a deadly September 13 buggy crash in St. Lawrence County, New York. The two people killed when a pickup truck struck the buggy outside Canton, New York were a young boy visiting from Michigan and his grandmother. The crash had many victims, and I wondered at the time if there weren’t a good number of children inside, given the…