The Associated Press
BEACH CITY, Ohio — Ohio troopers believe a man was drinking before he crashed his all-terrain vehicle into a horse-drawn buggy carrying an Amish couple and their nine children.
The State Highway Patrol says the ATV driver was hospitalized with serious injuries following Sunday evening’s accident on a road in northeast Ohio’s Stark County. WJW-TV reports the father driving the buggy received a cut on the head but no one else in the family was hurt.
Trooper Matthew Mossor tells the television station the 34-year-old ATV driver wasn’t wearing a helmet or his seat belt and was thrown from the vehicle.
Mossor says the patrol believes alcohol played a role in the crash, which remains under investigation.