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Drivers keep crashing into Amish buggies, so Ohio enacted a law requiring buggies be festooned with electric flashing lights (www.ashlandsource.com)
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ASHLAND — Twenty-six Amish who refused to pay their fines for violating a law that requires flashing lights on their buggies appeared in court on Friday.

Once there, Ashland Municipal Court Judge John Good ruled out the possibility of jail time for them and instead said he would impose liens on their real estate.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)
  • Non electric reflectors
  • Change the roads and have separate roads for motorized and non motorized vehicles. Either put separate roads along them, widen the current ones
  • Move the blame towards the damn people that crash into these buggies, as they obviously are not paying attention to the road
  • Put more road lights. With LED and solar panels the installation cost for a simple light is pretty minimal nowadays.
  • Make it a rule that they can not drive at night instead of forcing electric lights upon their buggies. If they still drive at night, they are responsible for their own well-being

People and especially government forget that these kind of rules and laws are meant to protect the people. But instead the people they are supposed to protect are fined, forced to go up to the judge, forced to defend themselves against something that other people are telling them they should be doing. They are now victims because somebody else is supposedly trying to protect them from being victims.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The last one is bullshit. They're not putting themselves at risk, but others too.

It's like saying the solution to DUI is to make it legal but they are responsible for their well-being.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yes and i do think that should be the case. There are people that can drive better than other drivers even when they have a beer or a small amount of drugs in their system.

But then you should also be responsible for everybody's wellbeing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Change the roads and have separate roads for motorized and non motorized vehicles. Either put separate roads along them, widen the current ones Put more road lights. With LED and solar panels the installation cost for a simple light is pretty minimal nowadays.

This is still expensive, impractical, and unrealistic for many rural towns. The last place I lived struggled for two months just to pull together the funds to spray for mosquitos because they already had plans to work on the town's ditches.