An Amish woman was killed and two passengers in her buggy were flown to a Cincinnati hospital after a pickup truck struck the buggy from behind in Highland County, Ohio on Thursday morning. The crash occurred just after 8:30 AM on U.S. Route 50 in Paint Township. From the Wilmington News Journal: According to a preliminary investigation, a horse-drawn carriage operated by Melinda Coblentz, 49,…
This Amish buggy wreck involves something you don’t often hear of in these crashes – cruise control. The rear-end wreck sent an Amish man to hospital. This happened last week – on August 21 – but is just being reported today. A note on the photo above. The image used in the article linked below is rather graphic, showing blood and also a horse lying…
Back in April, we learned of a bad hit-and-run buggy wreck in Geauga County, Ohio. The driver of a pickup truck hit a horse-and-buggy carrying several Amish teens on a local road at 1 AM. I was told then by a local source that the driver was from the Amish community, and “was traveling at a very high rate of speed at the time of…
Four people were injured Monday evening when a car struck the back of a horse-drawn buggy on State Road 13 in Elkhart County, Indiana. This was another case of distracted driving, according to reports. Three of the four people injured were children. An 11-year-old girl was taken to the hospital with a “non-life-threatening” skull fracture. The crash happened around 5:50 p.m. on Monday, August 17,…
An Amish woman has been hospitalized after a wreck yesterday afternoon (Aug. 13) in Stark County, Ohio. This one resulted from a common and potentially dangerous situation that doesn’t get talked about enough. First, the key details from the Canton Repository: Trooper A. Burch said the Amish woman, who lives in the Navarre area, was riding her buggy south on Navarre Road SW. A man…
Six people were ejected from a horse-drawn buggy in Bedford County, Pennsylvania on Sunday evening when a car struck it from behind. This is in the same Pennsylvania county where a proposed steel wheel buggy ban failed just days earlier. The crash happened in the early evening on August 9 along William Penn Road, near the intersection with Younts Road, in East St. Clair Township….
One Amish family is counting their blessings after an 18-wheeler hit their buggy on a four-lane highway. This is from the Amish community at Ethridge, Tennessee. WSMV reports on the story – which appears to have been sourced from Lawrence County executive David Morgan, who shared the family’s plight on Facebook yesterday (August 4th). Morgan writes: I need someone with a horse trailer to help…
Another ending of sorts, this one on a story out of Williams County, Ohio ​we’ve been following since November. The driver who injured Martha Wagler, a 27-year-old Amish woman, and her two children in a hit-and-run crash last fall has taken a plea deal. As we covered back in November and again in December, Wagler’s buggy was struck from behind on November 12 in her community. The driver…
A hit-and-run driver is being sought in Jackson County, Wisconsin, after a pickup truck struck an Amish buggy on the evening of Wednesday, July 8th, injuring both the man riding in it and his horse. According to WEAU: JACKSON COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) — Jackson County Crime Stoppers are asking the public to help identify the driver of a blakc pickup truck towing a white trailer…
The matter at hand is a major road overpass project in Seymour, Missouri – meant to help improve safety in the state’s largest Amish settlement. It’s intended to go up in a part of the community where they are “genuinely scared” to drive their buggies, according to the former mayor. We first came across this story back in January, when we learned the Amish were…