Posted by Goose on August 07, 2012 at 19:26:30 from (70.198.5.77):
In NW Missouri this afternoon, by Stanberry, I was in Amish country and was the first on the scene of where a car had creamed an Amish horse and buggy from behind. I was probably only a minute or two after it happened. There was an elderly Amish couple in the buggy. The gentleman was on his feet, kinda dazed, his wife was sitting in the middle of the road in amongst a bunch of kindling wood that had once been the buggy, and the horse was lying on the side of the road. The guy that had hit them was stopped a couple hundred yards down the road and was just getting out of his car, kinda dumfounded.
I parked on the shoulder with the four way flashers on. When I asked the lady if she was hurt, she said she didn't know. I called 911 and reported it. Thankfully, it was near a junction of two highways, and when I told the 911 operator what the road signs said, he said he knew exactly where it was. Otherwise, I probably could have gotten the coordinates out of my GPS. Anyway, 911 said they would send an ambulance and the law. By then, the horse had gotten on his feet and ran a quarter of a mile down the road. He probably thought, "Screw this place!"
I was running late, but I stuck around until things were pretty much under control, and a number of other people had stopped. The Amish gentleman and some other guy got the lady on her feet. I wished them both luck and went on my way.
I was on the job and had my digital camera on the seat of my car, but in deference to the Amish religion I refrained from taking pictures. I figured if any pictures needed to be taken, the law could cope with it.
Shortly before this incident, a rock flew off a dump truck and busted my windshield. And I was meeting the truck, so no one can say I was following too close.
After all that, the rest of the day was uneventful.
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