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…
Some good news out of the Clarita, Oklahoma Amish community. All seven members of an Amish family – the Schrocks – injured in a September 6 buggy crash have been released from the hospital. Clarita Volunteer Fire Department Chief Frank Williams told the Ada News that the last hospitalized child returned home Thursday, September 17 – 11 days after the wreck. The buggy was carrying…
Four Amish children were injured Thursday afternoon when a motor vehicle attempting to pass their buggy hit it as it turned. The driver then decided to keep driving, leaving the scene. However, he or she was later arrested. The crash occurred in the Town of Buffalo in Marquette County, Wisconsin. From the Marquette County Sheriff’s Office statement: At approximately 3:44 p.m. today, September 17, 2026,…
Two people were killed and several others seriously hurt Sunday afternoon when a pickup truck and an Amish buggy collided in the town of Canton in St. Lawrence County, New York. The St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office initially reported one death, then raised the count to two Sunday night. According to WWNY 7 News, the crash happened around 3 p.m. Sunday on County Route 25…
A mother was airlifted with traumatic injuries and five other members of her family were taken to hospitals after a Jeep SUV struck their horse-drawn buggy Saturday in Coffey County, Kansas. Here is the account from the Coffey County Sheriff’s Office, via KAKE: The Coffey County Sheriff’s Office reports that around 5:35 p.m. on Fauna Road, a Jeep SUV pulled up behind a horse-drawn buggy…
An everyday bodily function is being blamed for a crash which has claimed the life of a 37-year-old Amish woman in Monroe County, Wisconsin. Here’s what happened, via WMTV: MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – One person has died and five others were injured after a driver’s “sneezing fit” caused her to crash into an Amish buggy last week, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. The…
An Amish family of seven suffered injuries, some of them serious, when a driver rear-ended their buggy Sunday night in Coal County, Oklahoma. The crash was dramatic – and the aftermath was as well. A trapped baby fortunately survived – but it very well could have ended up differently, according to the fire chief. Here’s more via the Ada News: Williams said it appeared a…