19-year-old Wisconsin woman in Amish buggy killed in crash with tractor-trailer
Two siblings were thrown from a horse-pulled Amish buggy Monday morning when a tractor-trailer truck crashed into them as they rode through rural Wisconsin, killing one of the occupants as well as the horse.
The buggy itself was demolished in the crash, which occurred after 3 a.m. on Wisconsin Highway 81 in Darlington, according to a media release from the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office.
Lafayette County sheriff's deputies were among the first-responders dispatched to the scene of the crash just east of Burke Road. The Darlington Police Department, Lafayette County medics and the Darlington Fire Department were also all dispatched, according to the release.
Investigators determined that both the buggy and the tractor-trailer truck were headed east on the state highway when the truck's driver, identified by the sheriff's office as Pavel Ivanovich Gritskan, 39, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, crashed into the buggy from behind.
The occupants of the buggy — identified as siblings Samuel King, 30, and Fannie S. King, 19, both of rural Darlington — were ejected, according to the sheriff's office.
Fannie King was pronounced dead at the scene. Samuel King was taken first to Memorial Hospital of Lafayette County before being flown to University Hospital in Madison, according to the sheriff's office.
The horse pulling the buggy was also killed.
Gritskan was uninjured.
The sheriff's office and the Wisconsin State Patrol's technical reconstruction unit are investigating the crash.
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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: One dead in Wisconsin after tractor-trailer, Amish buggy accident
