JACKSON — Police are searching for the driver of a vehicle that collided with an Amish buggy on state Route 22 on Tuesday in a crash that left seven people injured, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
Amish Buggy Accidents 2025 (Page 1)
Every year, cars and buggies collide on America's highways and, quite often, people end up in hospitals or get killed. Be sure and click on links at the bottom of the page for accidents that took place during other years.
Buggy Accidents 2025, Page 1
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June 30, 225
MARSHALL COUNTY, IN - Two people are dead after a pickup truck hit a horse-drawn buggy on Monday evening in Marshall County.
The crash happened around 5:30 p.m. on 8th Road just west of Apple Road.
June 24, 2025
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA — An Amish buggy crashed in Pittsylvania County Tuesday morning, according to state police.
According to the Virginia State Police, the crash occurred at 11:00 a.m. on Alan Creek Road.
June 19, 2025
A box truck struck a horse and buggy on Ernsberger Road in Varick on June 16, leaving two men injured and causing a power pole to collapse.
The Seneca County Sheriff’s Office identified the buggy operator as Enis Hertzler, 38, of Ogden Road in Varick. Deputies say the crash occurred around 9 a.m. as Hertzler traveled westbound.
June 16, 2025
A mid-Sunday morning accident between an ATV and horse-drawn buggy resulted in the death of the buggy driver, and serious injury to a passenger.
The Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office, along with EMS and fire personnel, responded to the incident on US Highway 10 east of Maertz Road in the Township of Cato.
The Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office, along with EMS and fire personnel, responded to the incident on US Highway 10 east of Maertz Road in the Township of Cato.
June 15, 2025
GRANT COUNTY, WI – One person was injured in a car vs. buggy crash.
Tuesday morning (June 10) at approximately 9:50a, the Grant County Sheriff’s Office took a report of the crash on Highway 61, in the Township of Marion.
June 15, 2025
East Bethel, MN - Authorities are investigating a fatal crash in a northern Twin Cities suburb.
The Anoka County Sheriff's Office says deputies and other emergency personnel responded around 10:30 Friday morning to a report of a traffic crash on Highway 65 in East Bethel. The preliminary investigation indicates a pickup crashed into the back of an SUV.
June 14, 2025
EPHRATA, PA - A horse and buggy was struck by a vehicle in Lancaster County on Sunday morning, according to the Lincoln Fire Company.
The two-vehicle crash happened in the 800 block of West Main Street/Route 322 in Ephrata Borough just after 8 a.m.
JUNE 13, 2025
CLAYTON, N.Y. — UPDATE: The operator of the Dodge Challenger has been identified as Scott M. Vanalstyne, age 58, from LaFargeville, NY. The operator of the horse drawn buggy is Emanuel Shetler, age 27, from LaFargeville NY.
All injured parties are currently listed in stable condition at this time.
JUNE 12, 2025
TOWN OF CLAYTON, NY - An Amish man and his two young sons are in stable condition after a car crashed into their buggy on Wednesday.
State police said 27-year-old Emanuel Shetler of LaFargeville and his boys, ages 4 and 5, were thrown from their horse-drawn buggy on County Route 3, also known as East Line Road, in the town of Clayton.
JUNE 10, 2025
SALISBURY TOWNSHIP, PA - Two children were hospitalized after a pony-drawn cart crashed into a tractor-trailer in Lancaster County, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
The wreck happened on Old Philadelphia Pike/Route 340 near Spring Garden Road in Salisbury Township around 9:20 a.m. Wednesday, according to the report.
JUNE 3, 2025
CLEARWATER COUNTY, MN - A Bagley woman has been charged with assault and reckless driving after an incident Friday in Clearwater County.
Court documents state Jamie Harmon intentionally rammed into another vehicle, an Amish buggy, with her motor vehicle while the other vehicle was occupied.
MAY 30, 2025
According to a press release from the sheriff’s office, troopers and deputies were dispatched to a report of a hit-and-run car-buggy personal injury crash in the area of West Peck and Isles roads in Sanilac County’s Flynn Township about 6:20 p.m. Friday.
MAY 19, 2025
MARSHALL COUNTY, IN - Several people were taken to the hospital after a crash involving a horse-drawn buggy over the weekend in Marshall County.
The crash happened just before 6 p.m. Friday at the intersection of U.S. 6 and Dogwood Road.
Police say a Chevy Silverado was heading north on Dogwood when it entered the intersection and hit a Volvo XC70 that was heading west on U.S. 6. The collision caused the Silverado to run into a stopped horse-drawn buggy.
May 13, 2025
Three people, one adult and two children, were injured late Monday after a van collided with an Amish buggy in northern Trumbull County.
State Troopers tell 21 News that the crash occurred after 8:30 p.m. on State Route 87 about half a mile east of the Commons on Route 46.
Three people, one of whom was thrown from the buggy, were hospitalized. Two of the victims were transported by medical helicopter.
May 5, 2025
GLADWIN COUNTY, MI— Several people were injured in a buggy crash on Friday.
According to the Gladwin County Sheriff's Office, on Friday, May 2nd at approximately 8:25 p.m., deputies investigated a crash near the intersection of Bard Road and Calhoun Road involving a motor vehicle and Amish Buggy.
May 2, 2025
The Washington County Sheriff's Office is investigating a hit and run crash between a vehicle and an Amish buggy that took place earlier this week.
Police responded to State Route 22 in the southern Washington County town of Jackson Tuesday afternoon.
The Sheriff's Office says the buggy's occupants, five children and two adults, were taken to Albany Medical Center with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries.
April 30, 2025
Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report about the crash around 4:22 p.m., according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. Sheriff’s deputies found the buggy, but not the other vehicle involved in the crash. The driver had fled the scene, the department said.
April 20, 2025
LANCASTER COUNTY, PA — A vehicle crashed into a horse and buggy in Lancaster County this morning.
According to the Rawlinsville Volunteer Fire Company on Facebook, on Easter Sunday, just before 7:30 a.m., fire crews, alongside Lancaster EMS, Southern York County EMS, and PA State Police, were dispatched to the Norman Wood Bridge in Martic Township for a vehicle accident involving a horse and buggy.
April 14, 2025
An Amish woman was hurt and her horse was killed after their buggy was struck by a truck in Fillmore County on Saturday.
Fillmore County Dispatch says it got the call at 7:38 a.m. on Saturday, April 12. An investigation by Fillmore County Deputies determined the buggy was going south on county road 8 when it was hit by a 2010 Ford pickup truck also going south on county road 8.
April 14, 2025
DELTA COUNTY, MI – Four people were injured, and two of them are in critical condition, after an Amish horse and buggy was hit by a truck in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
At 3:28 p.m. on Saturday, April 12, Delta County deputies responded to the Riverland area on 18th Road near H.25 Road after receiving a report of a crash involving a pickup truck and an Amish buggy.
April 14, 2025
Spring Valley, MN - A woman was hurt and a horse was killed when a pick-up truck smashed into a horse-drawn amish buggy on a rural southeast Minnesota road over the weekend.
April 12, 2025
Three Amish children were killed on their way to school when an SUV crashed into their horse-drawn buggy in Indiana.
Siblings Glenda Jo Yoder, 13, Darrell Yoder, 10, and Devon Yoder, 9, were thrown from the carriage when a Mercedes-Benz GLA rear-ended it Wednesday morning in the rural town of Bremen, about 20 miles south of South Bend, WIBC reported.
April 6, 2025
GLADWIN COUNTY, MI -- A driver attempted to pass a school bus and crashed into an oncoming horse and carriage in Gladwin County’s Sage Township on March 3.
The driver of the horse-drawn buggy, a 27-year-old Amish man named Henry Troyer, died of blunt-force trauma at the University of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor on March 14.
April 3, 2025
MURPHYSBORO, IL. — According to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, at 8:16 a.m. on April 3, deputies responded to a report of a traffic crash on S. Illinois Highway 127, near Caraway Road.
JCSO states that the preliminary investigation shows that a horse drawn buggy was northbound on Illinois 127 while a gray 2015 Nissan Sentra, being driven by 25-year-old Jawone Newell of Cape Girardeau, was also heading the same way and approached the buggy from the rear.
March 26, 2025
LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP, MI — A child was killed and another seriously injured when an Amish horse-drawn buggy was hit by an SUV near Lawrence Wednesday morning, police say.
The crash happened a little after 8 a.m. in the area of County Road 215 and 60th Avenue in Lawrence Township. A witness who saw it called 911.
March 19,2025
SAGE TOWNSHIP, MI -- A 27-year-old Amish man, who was operating a horse-drawn carriage, has died following a March 3 head-on collision with an SUV in Gladwin County’s Sage Township.
The 53-year-old driver of a northbound orange Dodge Journey was attempting to pass a school bus when he struck the horse and buggy that was traveling southbound along North Bard near Sullivan.
March 10, 2025
WARWICK TOWNSHIP, PA - A man was arrested for suspicion of DUI when he crashed into a horse and buggy on Sunday, according to Northern Lancaster County Regional police.
In a recent report, police said a man was driving a 2012 Subaru WRX when he hit a horse and buggy at West Orange Street and Pfautz Avenue in Warwick Township around 6:45 p.m.
March 7, 2025
LOUISVILLE, KY - Five people were taken to the hospital after a crash in Breckinridge County on Thursday, March 6.
Kentucky State Police said the crash happened in the 14,000 block of South KY 259 around 3:15 p.m. central time when a 2004 Ford Taurus rear-ended a horse-drawn buggy.
February 27, 2025
CRIDERSVILLE, OH – The Wapakoneta Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a two-vehicle serious injury crash that occurred Wednesday at 5:12 p.m. at the intersection of Mudsock Road and Buckland Holden Road in Duchouquet Township, Auglaize County.
The preliminary investigation revealed that a 2008 Ford Explorer, operated by Christina Mathewson, 65, of Wapakoneta, was traveling south on Mudsock Road, approaching the intersection of Buckland Holden Road.
February 24, 2025
LOGAN MILLS, PA — Just before 1 p.m. on Friday afternoon, the Sugar Valley Fire Company, the Goodwill Hose Company and the Pennsylvania State Police responded to the scene of an accident involving a vehicle and an Amish buggy in the area of West Valley Road and Mountainside Acres, near Logan Mills.
February 20, 2025
MERCER COUNTY, OH - A New Paris man who caused a fatal car-versus-buggy crash in Mercer County has been sentenced to prison.
Trey Frech, 25, was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison in Mercer County Common Pleas Court earlier today. He previously pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated vehicular homicide and three counts of vehicular assault.
February 14, 2025
One man was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a 20-year-old man from Chatfield, Minn., hit a horse and buggy on a highway south of St. Charles on Thursday. Winona County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the crash at 4:30 p.m. on February 13 near the intersection of County Road 35 and County Road 123 in Saratoga Township.
January 25, 2025
CELINA - A New Paris man pleaded guilty Friday to four felony charges stemming from a 2023 head-on collision with a horse-drawn buggy that killed a 1-year-old girl and injured several members of her family.
Trey Frech, 25, who was originally indicted on 10 charges, appeared for a change-of-plea hearing before Mercer County Common Pleas Court Judge Matthew Fox. Frech pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide, a third-degree felony, and three counts of vehicular assault, a fourth-degree felony.
Trey Frech, 25, who was originally indicted on 10 charges, appeared for a change-of-plea hearing before Mercer County Common Pleas Court Judge Matthew Fox. Frech pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide, a third-degree felony, and three counts of vehicular assault, a fourth-degree felony.
