Amish family members hurt after horse-drawn buggy flips

A community is rallying around members of an Amish family who were seriously hurt earlier this month when their horse-drawn buggy flipped and dragged them about 60 feet.

A transfer truck drove by them on Aug. 7, which scared the two horses that pulled the buggy.

The horses ran and one jumped a guardrail flipping the buggy. The driver, Henry Yoder, was pulled onto the concrete.

“I thought it was going to kill me,” said Yoder, who spent 2½ days in a hospital.

“He has a broken nose. His cheekbones are broken and both sides of his jaw,” said Karen Crawford, a family friend, who lives near the Amish community west of Shelby.

His wife, Sarah, was hurt in the crash and is using a wheelchair to get around. Their 9-month-old grandson was in the buggy too but not injured.

The family said they have no money to pay their medical bills.

Crawford started a GoFundMe page, and it has raised thousands of dollars.

“They couldn’t believe that many people cared about them,” Crawford said. “They are just such humble people.”

Yoder said, “I kind of felt guilty taking it. I never want to ask for anything.”

Crawford said she needed to give.

“I wish everybody know the Amish like we do,” she said.

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