Woman (Allegedly) Hits Buggy & Flees…Now Faces Felony. Two Amish People “Seriously Injured”
This happened in St. Lawrence County, New York, a heavily-Amish part of the country no stranger to buggy crashes.
I guess this person thought they could get away with hitting an Amish buggy…but soon learned otherwise. From localsyr.com:
CANTON, N.Y. (WWTI) – A 35-year-old Lisbon woman is facing charges after allegedly leaving the scene of an accident that involved an Amish buggy and seriously injured two people.
According to the St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department, Larissa Carlin was charged with leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, which is a felony.
Authorities said that Carlin was traveling southwest on County Route 14 in the town of Canton on Tuesday afternoon when she allegedly crashed into the back of the buggy that a man and two youths were in.
Sheriff’s officials said two people were seriously hurt. However, the injuries were not life-threatening.
Carlin allegedly left the scene of the accident, but was later found driving in the village of Rensselaer Falls.
Hit-and-runs on Amish buggies are not uncommon. There was the one in Kentucky less than a week ago, there was this one in May, there was this one in April.
I think people just assume that a) the buggy is not going to chase them down, and b) the people in the buggy don’t have easy access to recording, or even telephoning, technology.
So in the heat of the moment, and to someone predisposed to running from a problem, it probably “makes sense” to them to just take off.
But – as more than a few bad drivers have learned – just because they’re Amish, doesn’t mean they won’t be able to identify you (or, other drivers on the road).
And in a world of doorbell cameras and recording devices, you can’t be too sure what you did wasn’t captured on tape, so to speak.
I’m not saying that’s how this woman was found (I don’t know the details there), but it is one upside to having a lot of cameras about.
“Serious injuries” is one of those terms that doesn’t tell you anything at all about the nature of the damage – besides that it was bad. We at least know the injuries were not life-threatening. I hope these two lives won’t be permanently impacted by what happened.
At least the injuries are not life threatening. I’ll never understand why people think it’s a good idea to run. Don’t turn a misdemeanor into a felony. You are just creating bigger problems for yourself.