Last year seems to have been a particularly bad one for children in buggy accidents. For example, we saw two separate accidents in Michigan which took the lives of three children in each case. It’s now been decided that the driver in one of the accidents will not be charged: DETROIT (AP) — An elderly motorist whose SUV slammed into the back of a horse-drawn…
Via Syracuse.com: Georgetown, N.Y. — An Amish teenager died Tuesday after his buggy was hit by an SUV in Madison County. Rudy M. Hershberger, of Earlville, was pronounced dead at Community Memorial Hospital in Hamilton hospital shortly after the crash, the New York State Police said. He was 17 years old. The accident happened around 5:15 p.m. on state Route 26 in Georgetown. Hershberger was…
It’s looking like good work by authorities in northwest Pennsylvania. Back in July, a young Amish couple and their two children – a 1-year-old and an infant – were rear-ended in Crawford County. The driver was charged yesterday for the hit-and-run crash: TITUSVILLE — A Spartansburg woman has been charged for a Sparta Township hit-and-run crash with a horse-drawn Amish buggy that seriously injured a…
An interesting letter just appeared at Lancaster Online. An excerpt: I have an idea for the state to make a chunk of change. Why not make the Amish register each of their buggies and have a yearly inspection and safety check, just like those of us with motor vehicles are required to do? I believe the buggies ruin our roads. When I asked a state…
After a buggy accident, people often ask “Why can’t there be buggy lanes for the Amish?” One big roadblock is cost. It’s generally judged too expensive to install buggy lanes in most of the hundreds of small communities where Amish live. So in reality it tends to happen primarily in the largest settlements. With that in mind, there is the good news that buggy lanes…
A somewhat bad news, and a rare good news story today in the buggy accidents department. First, this is the largest number of accident victims I have ever seen in a buggy incident. Thankfully, they all seem to have just minor injuries. The accident happened in Buckingham County, Virginia. This is the same area as the Farmville settlement which I visited and wrote about here…
A 16-year-old was killed in Lancaster County Saturday evening, when the buggy he was traveling in was hit by a speeding pickup. Three others in the buggy were seriously injured. From Lancaster Online: Samuel K. Lapp died as a result of the accident along Route 372 in Eden Township, state police confirmed Monday. Lapp’s older brother, Benuel, who was driving the buggy, was seriously injured…
I share this news because a picture is worth a thousand words. And there are two “good” images of this bad accident. Bad, but not as bad as it could have been. A distracted driver hit a buggy in upstate New York on Wednesday, reports country radio station Big Frog 104 (as an aside, great name for a radio station). The location is Franklin County,…
Another hit-and-run on an Amish buggy. This one happened yesterday in Clare County, Michigan, a place we recently covered here. From 9and10news.com: The Clare County Sheriff’s Department is asking for help to find whoever was behind the wheel during a hit-and-run with an Amish buggy. Deputies says it happened Sunday on Beaverton Road. They believe the car was possibly a Pontiac Grand Am or Grand…
I’m not loving sharing all these bad happenings on the roads with you. But after posting the sad case of a drunk driver who killed a young Amish father in Wisconsin last week, I surely can’t overlook this latest story. An 18-year-old Amish male was charged for “recklessly operating a buggy while drunk.” I don’t think that’s the exact name for the criminal charge, but…