By Associated Press - Monday, August 31, 2020

QUARRYVILLE, Pa. (AP) - A crash involving a pickup truck and a horse and buggy claimed the life of an Amish teenager and seriously injured three other people in Pennsylvania over the weekend, authorities said.

State police in Lancaster County said the crash happened during rainy weather on Route 372 east of Quarryville in Eden Township just after 7:30 p.m. Saturday, LNP newspaper reported.

All four people were ejected from the buggy in the crash, which killed 16-year-old Samuel Lapp, state police said. His older brother was airlifted to Hershey Medical Center in critical condition, and a 20-year-old woman and another 16-year-old youth had serious injuries, police said. The two people in the truck were uninjured.



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