LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A SUV struck an Amish buggy Wednesday in southwestern Michigan, killing an 8-year-old woman and injuring a 12-year-old boy, the one folks within the horse-drawn automobile, police stated.
The boy was once in vital situation at a health center. The pony died because of the rear-end crash in Van Buren County’s Lawrence Township, police stated.
“The driving force of the SUV was once arrested and lodged on the county prison on working beneath the affect of an unknown substance. She nor her two occupants had been injured,” state police stated on X.
The crash came about on a county highway round 8 a.m.
“Consider that there’s an Amish group. You’re going to see horse and buggies going up and down the roadways,” Spl/Lt. DuWayne Robinson of the state police advised WWMT-TV.
“They have got simply as a lot proper to the roadway as passenger automobiles do,” Robinson stated.
It’s criminal for youngsters to be in an Amish buggy with out an grownup, he stated.
