So another unsafe driver sent Amish people flying out of their buggy and into the hospital. This one happened in Herkimer County, New York. And it’s another case of driving too fast – and failing to pass. The injuries are “non-life-threatening”, which I will mention once again, does not mean “non-serious”. Here’s what happened, according to the report at WKTV: A car collided with an…
This is a follow-up on the story of the crash in central PA which claimed two Amish children’s lives on Sunday night. A family friend (I assume) has started a GoFundMe for the Zook family, who are victims in the Northumberland County, PA crash. The GoFundMe provides some updates as well as photos. First, more tragic details on the two children, Caleb and Rebekah, who…
This one happened Friday afternoon in Middlebury, Indiana (in the Elkhart-LaGrange community). And yes, it sounds – and looks – like a bad one. From WSBT: MIDDLEBURY, Ind. (WSBT) — Three people, including a juvenile, were sent to the hospital after their horse drawn buggy was hit Friday afternoon in Middlebury. Middlebury Police say the buggy was hit head-on by an SUV that crossed the…
Two Amish children, ages seven and nine, are dead in central Pennsylvania after a Sunday night rear-end crash. The 39-year-old driver told police that “believes he fell asleep” while driving. The location is Northumberland County, PA, where there is an Amish community of around 600 in the vicinity of Dornsife. More from PennLive: The crash happened around 8 p.m. in Jackson Township in the 4000 block…
Another distracted driver has caused a serious buggy crash, this time in Richmond County, Virginia. It happened yesterday afternoon (September 28). A total of seven people in the buggy were injured. Two of them sound like they’re in bad shape. From WTVR: RICHMOND COUNTY, Va. — Two people were medflighted after a car crashed into a horse-drawn buggy carrying seven people at an intersection in…
A car left a buggy looking pretty badly, as you can see in the above photo – in a crash which happened Wednesday in Ashland County, Ohio. Ashland County Pictures does a great job as usual reporting this with numerous photos of the accident scene. The driver of the buggy and a teenage passenger both went to hospital, with injuries described as “non-life-threatening”. This is…
Gladwin County, Michigan was the scene of another buggy accident yesterday. An older Amish man was sent to the hospital after his buggy was hit. Fortunately his injuries are described as “non-life-threatening”. More from Mid Michigan Now: GLADWIN COUNTY, Mich.— On September 24th around 7:15 p.m. the Gladwin County Sheriff’s Office were called to investigate a personal injury accident involving a pickup truck and an…
That buggy and debris trail look pretty bad. Fortunately, the Amish victim’s injuries are called “non-life-threatening”. Hopefully the same can be said for the horse, but that’s less clear (more on that below). This happened yesterday (Friday, September 12) in a community in Aroostook County, Maine. This massive county is home to no less than four separate Amish settlements. This happened in the Amish settlement…
Maybe you’ve seen it as well – an Amish buggy blowing through a stop sign. A woman named Katrina recently noticed just that – in fact, she witnessed two Amish buggies running stop signs in her Missouri community. So she submitted a simple question to a local news station: “Are Amish buggies required to follow the laws of the road?” Here’s the reporting from station…
This was first reported yesterday – but with scarce details. Now it’s known that a crash in Herkimer County, New York, ejected eight Amish people from a wagon, with a six-year-old boy being hospitalized. A horse was also killed in the crash. From Syracuse.com: Danube, N.Y. — Eight people were ejected from a horse-drawn wagon and a horse died after a crash Monday in Herkimer…