Amish accident

[plowindeeper]

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=wtva%20amish&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wtva.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fstory%2FMHP-investigates-two-people-injured-in-Amish%2FCk4or1UmYEuVMB5y3ozwmw.cspx&ei=-GQIUsP2IsqMyQHvjYHoBA&usg=AFQjCNH4W2-g_LLtYjSy1NRg1dpY8zBQ8Q[

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=pontotoc%20amish%20wrecks&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDAQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpontotoc-progress.com%2F2013%2F05%2F28%2Famish-injured-in-an-auto-accident-tuesday-morning%2F&ei=Z2oIUs_SCeyFyQHEkIGIAg&usg=AFQjCNH49hkK-JBflCA2bvB5qKPnL-BoWw
I know a lot of people on here live among the amish. We've had several bad wreaks here in the last several years.

 

[schmism]

whats the avg working horse for amish worth? does the insurance company write them a check? or do they demand that the insurance company deliver same age/sex/type of horse as replacement....

 

[flyingcow]

Getting a pretty good population of them up here too. Been a few close calls.

 

[Bill 55]

I don't believe the Amish believe in insurance

 

[Wagtail]

whats the avg working horse for amish worth? does the insurance company write them a check? or do they demand that the insurance company deliver same age/sex/type of horse as replacement....

It's sad that I laughed at that last bit... especially as the insurance companys are advertising 'new for old'. So if they delivered a new foal, it'd be a couple of years before it would even start pulling a buggy.

My immediate family lived in Kitchener, Ontario, until recently. BIG Mennonite country and the buggies were/are a common sight everywhere. I don't recall there ever being an accident recorded in all the years they lived there.

 

[Ed of all trades]

I will be praying for both of the people involved.

 

[CliffordK]

It would seem as if the car ran into the buggy, and not the buggy running into the car.

Liability would fall on the car driver. Even if the horses are raised in the Amish community, and the buggies are built and repaired in the community, no doubt they can come up with an insurance value, and likely less than the value of the other car involved in the crashes.

Are those two different incidents with the same buggy driver? I hope he is ok.

 

[rockinmywaypa]

I live close to a large community of them too and they piss me off. They are always out after dark or before daylight without a single piece of lighting on their slow moving buggies and wagons. All they have to do is get off their bible thumping principles and put on some glow in the dark tape or proper lights to let people in cars going the speed limit know that they are in the middle of the lane. So many needless deaths of young people and everybody simpathises with the ones that cause the accidents. Btw I don't believe it can be called an accident when somebody does something deliberate to cause it.

 

[dodge man]

I also live near some Amish, and they are actually pretty good about having lighting on after dark. I've noticed a car battery that powers the lights. We also had an accident near us, a younger girl was driving the buggy and it got away from her at a corner and a car hit it. I think only the horse was hurt.

 

[Oliver1655]

Correct, the Amish do not believe in insurance. Around me the buggies are normally good about using the lights on their buggies. Actually better than a lot of the cars & trucks! However, those who are riding the horses, well that is a different story.