{"id":15278,"date":"2026-04-26T22:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=15278"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:40:19","slug":"jeep-plows-into-amish-buggy-near-berne-father-airlifted-multiple-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=15278","title":{"rendered":"Jeep plows into Amish buggy near Berne \u2014 father airlifted, multiple children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"391\">Screams shattered the quiet of rural\u00a0<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Indiana<\/span><\/span>\u00a0when a peaceful Amish buggy ride turned into a devastating crash. On\u00a0<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">State Road 218<\/span><\/span>\u00a0near\u00a0<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Berne<\/span><\/span>, a horse-drawn buggy carrying nine people was struck from behind by a Jeep late at night.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"393\" data-end=\"577\">The impact destroyed the carriage, throwing passengers onto the road. Seven were injured\u2014most of them children\u2014as sirens, emergency crews, and helicopters flooded the dark countryside.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"579\" data-end=\"746\">Authorities are now investigating the crash and testing the driver, but deeper concerns remain. How can slow-moving buggies safely share roads built for fast vehicles?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"748\" data-end=\"882\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">For the Amish community, this is more than an accident\u2014it\u2019s a painful reminder of the risks they face every day simply traveling home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Screams shattered the quiet of rural\u00a0Indiana\u00a0when a peaceful Amish buggy ride turned into a devastating crash. On\u00a0State Road 218\u00a0near\u00a0Berne, a horse-drawn buggy carrying nine people <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=15278\" title=\"Jeep plows into Amish buggy near Berne \u2014 father airlifted, multiple children\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15280,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278\/revisions\/15280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}