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Amish buggy rear ended, Deputy gets traffic ticket [1]

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Date: 2022-11-13

The evening before Halloween A county sheriff’s deputy rear ended an Amish buggy carrying a family of 4 and a middle aged woman who was probably a relative or a neighbor. All of the people in the buggy were piled into an ambulance and taken to the hospital where they were treated and released. The family is comprised of a couple (25 and 25) and two children (1 and 3). The buggy was destroyed, and the horse was put down at the scene.

Now in this county we are on or next to the Amish Trail (amishtrail.com), buggies are not an uncommon sight, at least half a dozen drive past my house every day. There are a couple of different communities, a big one in the eastern half of the county spilling over into the county next to us, and a smaller one in the western half. There is really no excuse for someone with good enough sight to drive to miss one on the road. You know to watch for them. I have never seen a buggy without the safety orange triangle, reflectors and lantern lights on the back. I have never seen a buggy not move as far to the right as they safely can when a car comes up behind them. I

So how did a Sheriff’s Deputy manage to rear end a buggy? According to a news outlet his camera seems to indicate he was looking at his in-dash computer trying to find an address, and did not see the buggy until the last second. So, he was doing the equivalent of texting while driving? He sent 5 people to the hospital, destroyed somebody else’s vehicle, and killed a horse, because he was doing something he would have ticketed someone else for? If he had been arresting himself, he probably would also have been digging for something else to charge himself with. As it is, at this point, he gets a traffic ticket, for “failure to exercise due care”. Locally within my knowledge, that is the ticket they write when they don’t want to write a ticket or even arrest somebody. Like a guy I know from a particular family who was brought home stupid drunk with that ticket (sheriff’s department). On the other hand it seems to be the one they write when they want to write a ticket but have no particular reason. Like my former neighbor (Puerto Rican and proud of it) in town who had just bought a new car, cop knocked on his door and handed him that ticket (city PD). I was surprised by that one, usually when the car is parked on the street they just ticket you for blocking a sidewalk.

The County DA says “the incident is still under investigation”. I think that that is mostly because the press has picked up the story, and he is saying that until they lose interest.

Am I a bit unimpressed with local law enforcement? Why what might make you think that?

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