The peace shattered in a single, violent instant. Sirens tore through the darkness, racing past quiet fields as word spread that an Amish family’s buggy had been struck by a Jeep on State Road 218 near Berne. Children were injured. A father was airlifted. Mothers wept. Neighbors hurried from their homes—not to watch, but to pray, to help, to carry what sorrow they could share. Under the harsh wash of emergency lights, the roadway told a story no one wanted to see: splintered wood, scattered belongings, a silent buggy that had only hours earlier carried a family of nine. In...
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