(4-1-22) The Adams County Sheriff’s Office indicates that weather and driver inattention were factors in a crash involving a horse drawn Amish buggy carrying a family of two adults and three children in rural Adams County last night.

The crash took place just after 8:30 p.m. east of the intersection of County Road 000 and State Road 218. A Ford van, driven by Adan Hernandez (44) of Bryant, Indiana, was going east when it rear-ended the buggy which was also going east. All five people in the buggy were thrown from it.

The buggyโ€™s occupants, Noah J.S. Schwartz (34) Mary Schwartz (27) two boys and a girl were all treated at the scene and then taken to a nearby hospital for additional treatment.

Hernandez refused treatment.

The investigation is ongoing.