A rear-end collision in Breckinridge County involving a horse-drawn Amish buggy has sent four people to the hospital, including some with life-threatening injuries.
The collision happened just after 3 p.m. March 6 around the 14000 block of South KY 259, according to a Friday release from Kentucky State Police. Three juveniles were among those airlifted to medical care.
A buggy on the road is not an unusual sight in Kentucky, which is one of the most populous states for Amish communities. According to 2022 estimates from the Young Center at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, Kentucky had almost 15,000 Amish residents, mainly concentrated in the western and northeastern parts of the state…