Several years ago, just south of Maryville, MO, I was first on the scene where a car had creamed an Amish buggy from behind.
I couldn't have been more than a minute after it happened. The guy who hit them was still in his car. It was an elderly Amish couple. The old man was standing with a stunned look on his face. The horse was laying on its side on the shoulder of the road, and the lady was sitting in the middle of the road in a pile of kindling wood that had been the buggy. I knelt down and asked her if she was hurt. She replied she didn't know yet.
At that point, I reached for my phone and called 911 to report the whole thing. I gave 911 the coordinates off of my GPS unit, and told them it might not hurt to send an ambulance to be on the safe side. While I was on the phone with 911, the horse got up and ran down the road a ways. By then a couple more vehicles had stopped and the lady was on her feet and leaning against the side of a pickup.
At that point there wasn't any more I could do but stand around, and I was about a half hour behind where I intended to be at that time of the day, so I passed a few of my business cards around, wished them luck, and headed down the road.
When I pulled to a stop on the shoulder and saw all of that mess, though, I just knew there would be a couple of bodies in the middle of it. Thankfully, there weren't.
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