I thought I’d maybe heard it all by now. I guess not. From Penn Live: A woman was charged after she continued driving to work after hitting a horse buggy, injuring a 17-year-old last month in Lancaster County, police said in court documents. Reyna Mondragon Reza, 41, of Chester County, was charged with a misdemeanor count of accident involving injury while not licensed, and driving…
The good news in this buggy accident is that everyone is okay (including the horse). But I’m not quite sure how the buggy ended up where it did. Especially with no injuries to the driver. This story comes to us from Newport, New York (Herkimer County) and happened yesterday evening. There aren’t a lot of details, but this is from the report at WKTV on…
I was just contacted about a new effort to support the family of Elmer Borntrager, the 16-year-old Amish boy killed last week in a hit-and-run incident in Clarke County, Iowa. Elmer was buried this past Sunday, November 16th. He is survived by his parents David and Esther Borntrager and family including siblings. You can see the program from his funeral in the photo above, including…
Another horrible crash has led to the death of an Amish teen in southern Iowa. And the person apparently responsible for the death decided to run. This incident, which happened early yesterday evening in Clarke County, Iowa, was reported at KJAN, a local radio station: (Clarke County, IA) [updated with suspect vehicle information] – A horse-drawn buggy operated by a teenager, was struck by an…
This one was first reported in August, out of Van Buren County, Michigan – an (allegedly) intoxicated driver hit an Amish buggy in the evening hours, leading to five Amish people being injured. One of them had to receive “life-saving measures” (it was originally reported that six were injured, but that has been revised to five). To her credit, she stayed on the scene of…
This is not the type of buggy wreck story we are accustomed to seeing here. And fortunately, it sounds like the injured young man will recover. But it does shine a light on questionable behaviors found in some Amish circles. This story comes to us from the Amish settlement in Adams County, Indiana – which in itself is not exactly a surprise (more on that…
Christmas Day, 2024. Amish couple Henry and Ruth Bontrager, both aged 29, were out in their buggy around 6pm in the sizeable Amish community at Hillsboro, Wisconsin (Vernon County). Perhaps they had been out visiting family, and were on the way home, or to another relative’s place. Visiting family on the holidays is a popular activity for the Amish. At that moment, an intoxicated 20-year-old…
Yates County, New York saw a bad buggy wreck yesterday afternoon, leaving three seriously injured and a horse dead. But these (in all likelihood) weren’t Amish victims. Yates County is home to an Old Order Mennonite population. Old Order Mennonites typically use horse-drawn vehicles similar to those of the Amish. It’s a reminder that not only the Amish are exposed to horse-drawn accident danger on…
There have been a spate of car-buggy crashes reported in Kentucky over the past several days. Some quite serious, starting with this wreck in central Kentucky which claimed a young man’s life. 1. 19-Year-Old Killed in Casey County First, the most serious (at least at this point). It involved a van and a buggy driven by a 19-year-old Amish male. This happened in Casey County,…
When it comes to buggy accidents, we tend to focus on the more egregious incidents, when bad drivers clearly are at fault. But it goes without saying that motor vehicle drivers aren’t always to blame. Operators of horse-drawn vehicles bear their own responsibility on the road. And sometimes they are the reason for an accident happening. That appears to be the case in this incident…