State offcials say they have made an arrest following a crash that claimed the life of a young Amish man in late 2023. Police say the driver of a pickup truck hit a horse-drawn carriage from behind, ejecting two Amish passengers.
Unfortunately, crashes between motor vehicles and Amish carriages have become all too common in the state of New York. Since Amish do not use cars or trucks, residents from their settlements travel in horse drawn buggies to get to where they have to go.
This can cause a traffic problems, as both the carriages and much faster modern vehicles have to share narrow, backcountry roads across areas of Upstate New York…