Jeep plows into Amish buggy near Berne, father airlifted, multiple children!

As investigators continue their work and medical teams focus on recovery, the larger question remains unresolved. How can two worlds—one built on speed and convenience, the other on restraint and tradition—safely coexist on the same asphalt? Technology alone cannot answer that. It requires empathy, policy, infrastructure investment, and a cultural shift that values caution as much as efficiency.

For now, the road outside Berne has reopened, its surface cleared of debris. Cars will continue to pass. Buggies will return, because they must. But for the family involved and the community that surrounds them, the memory of that night will travel every mile with them. Each journey will carry the weight of knowing how quickly everything can change when steel meets wood and the modern world does not see what is in front of it until it is too late.