Just an awful story out of LaGrange County, Indiana. A dump truck “drifted” off the road and onto the shoulder, hitting a buggy driven by an Amish couple in their 70s – killing both of them. Of note: what’s being called “the shoulder” here appears to be a full-fledged, wide “buggy lane” in the area where the incident happened (more on that below). From the…
Details are scarce at the moment in this story out of Centre County, Pennsylvania (see update below). But we do know that two Amish people have been taken to the hospital – and one non-Amish driver into police custody – following another buggy crash. Yesterday at around 8:30 PM, an Amish buggy carrying two passengers was struck by a motor vehicle. More from WJAC: CENTRE…
Great work: It looks like the driver of a truck which (allegedly) hit an Amish buggy, seriously injuring a woman and two children – then fled – is coming closer to facing charges for the crime. Martha Wagler, a 27-year-old Amish woman, was traveling in a buggy along with two children in the early evening of November 12, in Williams County, Ohio. That’s when her…
Yet another hit-and-run on an Amish buggy. This one comes to us from Fort Fairfield, Maine and happened yesterday evening. The buggy was hit by the driver of a Jeep Wrangler – sending the buggy plowing into a pickup truck. More from Bangor Daily News: An Amish buggy was rear-ended in a hit-and-run crash Wednesday evening in Fort Fairfield. Mahlon Swartzentruber, 33, of Fort Fairfield…
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…