{"id":2416,"date":"2025-11-12T00:29:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/9ktv.us\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2025-11-12T00:29:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:29:04","slug":"jeep-plows-into-amish-buggy-near-berne-father-airlifted-multiple-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9ktv.us\/?p=2416","title":{"rendered":"Jeep plows into Amish buggy near Berne \u2014 father airlifted, multiple children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a83bda1e428544007e66ea6d458578f7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1746226\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>BERNE, Indiana \u2014 A late-night collision on State Road 218 turned a peaceful rural road into a chaotic emergency scene after a Jeep struck a horse-drawn Amish buggy, throwing nearly everyone out of the vehicle and sending multiple people to hospitals. First responders were called to the crash at about 11:20 p.m. on October 7; when they arrived they found a badly damaged buggy scattered across the pavement and a Jeep in a ditch.<\/p><div class=\"a83bda1e428544007e66ea6d458578f7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1746226\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The buggy was carrying nine people at the time of the crash. Local officials say a total of seven people from the buggy were injured and taken for medical care; reports describe six of those occupants as juveniles, though some local accounts list slightly different age breakdowns. The buggy\u2019s driver, 32-year-old Ruben L.M. Schwartz of Berne, was airlifted to Lutheran Hospital. Joseph L.M. Schwartz, 20, and five juvenile passengers were transported by ambulance to Parkview Hospital. Two other passengers \u2014 Saraetta L. Schwartz, 32, and a 2-year-old \u2014 declined treatment at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adams County Sheriff Dan Mawhorr told reporters the Jeep \u2014 driven by 33-year-old Bradley J. Ocilka of Burlington, Kentucky \u2014 struck the slower-moving buggy from behind while traveling eastbound on SR 218. Ocilka was taken to the hospital for a legal blood draw but declined other medical attention at the scene. At the time of reporting no charges had been filed while the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multiple agencies responded to the scene, including Adams County EMS, Berne and Geneva police departments, the Berne Fire Department, Wells and Jay County EMS, Indiana State Police, and Lutheran Hospital\u2019s Flight Team. 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