Cops: Car slams into horse-drawn buggy, injuring 7

KIRKWOOD, Pa. - A car slammed into a horse-drawn buggy that missed a stop sign in Pennsylvania Dutch country, injuring seven people including a 3-month-old, police said.

All six people in the buggy - two adults and four children - were ejected in the Thursday night accident. The baby was airlifted to a hospital.

Witnesses said they found parts of the buggy more than 50 yards from the intersection in Colerain Township, about 20 miles southeast of Lancaster, where it collided with a Subaru Outback.

Becky Hemric, who lives nearby, told Lancaster's LNP newspaper that the buggy looked "all smashed up."

"There were bodies everywhere," neighbor Mark Harmon told the newspaper. "People in the street, people attending to the baby. I just got them some blankets, and tried to keep them from getting hit by other cars. I've never seen anything like it."

The driver of the buggy, 38-year-old Daniel Esh, and one of the children sustained severe injuries and were listed in stable condition, police said. Another child was listed in critical condition. Two boys sustained minor injuries. A woman in the buggy was unhurt.

The two people in the Outback - 71-year-old driver Beverly Paul, of Annapolis, Maryland, and her passenger, a 92-year-old Lancaster woman - sustained minor injuries.