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Drivers keep crashing into Amish buggies, so Ohio enacted a law requiring buggies be festooned with electric flashing lights

www.ashlandsource.com 26 Amish appear in Ashland court for refusal to pay buggy light fines, judge rules out jail time

ASHLAND — Twenty-six Amish who refused to pay their fines for violating a law that requires flashing lights on their buggies appeared in court on Friday. Once there, Ashland Municipal […]

26 Amish appear in Ashland court for refusal to pay buggy light fines, judge rules out jail time

ASHLAND — Twenty-six Amish who refused to pay their fines for violating a law that requires flashing lights on their buggies appeared in court on Friday.

Once there, Ashland Municipal Court Judge John Good ruled out the possibility of jail time for them and instead said he would impose liens on their real estate.

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    • Non electric reflectors
    • Change the roads and have separate roads for motorized and non motorized vehicles. Either put separate roads along them, widen the current ones
    • Move the blame towards the damn people that crash into these buggies, as they obviously are not paying attention to the road
    • Put more road lights. With LED and solar panels the installation cost for a simple light is pretty minimal nowadays.
    • Make it a rule that they can not drive at night instead of forcing electric lights upon their buggies. If they still drive at night, they are responsible for their own well-being

    People and especially government forget that these kind of rules and laws are meant to protect the people. But instead the people they are supposed to protect are fined, forced to go up to the judge, forced to defend themselves against something that other people are telling them they should be doing. They are now victims because somebody else is supposedly trying to protect them from being victims.

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