Very sad breaking news out of Sauk County, Wisconsin. A 13-year-old Amish girl lost her life while driving a buggy Wednesday morning, after it was struck by a Ford F350 hauling a trailer. From the report at WKOW: VILLAGE OF IRONTON, Wis. (WKOW) — A 13-year-old Amish girl died after a truck pulling a trailer struck her horse and buggy from behind on Highway 58….
Two people were airlifted for treatment after a Friday afternoon buggy crash in Iowa’s largest Amish community – on a road with a deadly history for Amish in the community. From the report at the Bloomfield Democrat: Davis County Deputy Sheriff James Johnson said Tuesday morning he did not yet have a complete official report on the Amish buggy/pickup truck accident that occurred on 180th…
Alcohol use is in the picture, yet again, in another Amish buggy crash. Fortunately, this one was not fatal, like others have been. The buggy crash victim is a 74-year-old Amish man from the Harmony, Minnesota community, the state’s largest. Here’s more on the Saturday crash from the Post Bulletin report: LANESBORO, Minn. — One person was injured after a vehicle and a horse-drawn buggy…
A 77-year-old Amish man from Palatine, New York remains in critical condition tonight after a car struck his buggy on a state highway in Montgomery County Thursday evening. The accident impact happened on a curve, while the buggy was towing a piece of farm equipment (more on that below). From CBS 6 Albany: Sheriff Jeffery T. Smith said the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office 911 Dispatch…
It’s believed that an 11-year-old Amish boy pulled out into oncoming traffic, resulting in a serious accident in Gladwin County, Michigan on Wednesday morning. According to police the boy’s view was obscured. Here’s more from ABC 12: The crash happened just after 10 a.m. on McCulloch Rd., about a quarter-mile north of Lang Road in Beaverton Township. According to the Gladwin County Sheriff’s Office, an…
A 16-year-old Amish girl named Laura Schwartz was killed when a semi-truck rear-ended the horse-drawn buggy she was riding in. The crash happened early Saturday – the morning of June 6 – in Adams County, Indiana. It’s been a bad stretch on the roads for the Amish — and this is at least the second Amish teen to lose their life in a buggy wreck…
Michigan has returned to the news with another buggy crash — and again, one involving a (potentially) impaired person behind the wheel. A driver rear-ended an Amish buggy Friday evening in St. Joseph County, ejecting all four people inside and leaving a pregnant woman in critical condition. Drug use is suspected. Here’s more from WTVB: According to the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were…
An intoxicated 25-year-old woman struck an Amish buggy in Kosciusko County, Indiana several days ago, leaving behind multiple injured victims, and ultimately a trail of ugliness. And I say this is one of the uglier such stories, for several reasons. Those include what happened to the Amish victims involved – but especially for this person’s alleged behavior after the wreck happened. A Series of Bad…
Another tragic buggy crash has claimed the life of a young member of an Amish community in northern Kentucky, and left two others injured. The crash happened this past Saturday in Carroll County, Kentucky, as local Amish youth were on a fishing trip. According to reporting by the Madison Courier: The teens were traveling along with other teens from an Old Order Amish community in…
In March of last year, eight-year-old Alma Yoder was thrown from the buggy she was riding in, after it was rear-ended about a mile from her Van Buren County, Michigan home. Alma suffered severe injuries, and later died at hospital. Her 12-year-old brother Joey was critically injured but survived. The driver of the vehicle which hit the buggy, 31-year-old Sheila Kershner, was intoxicated at the…