Amish woman dies after crash


September 7, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Associated Press

CLEVELAND

A pregnant Amish woman injured when an SUV rear-ended her family’s buggy in Northeast Ohio has died.

Barbara Kauffman of Parkman was eight months’ pregnant and traveling with her husband and six children when a sports-utility vehicle rear-ended the buggy Wednesday. Ohio State Highway Patrol Sgt. Chad Bass says Kauffman died Sunday afternoon after giving birth to a son Thursday.

The baby is in fair condition at a Cleveland hospital.

Kauffman’s husband and her other children, age 1 to 9, were injured in the crash.

Bass says charges are pending against Julie Pirtz, the SUV driver. The highway patrol said Pirtz and her 11-month-old child had been treated at a hospital and released.

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