DARLINGTON, Wis. — An Amish woman in a horse-drawn buggy was killed returning home from a long day of Sabbath services. The buggy was struck from the rear by a semi-truck about 3:10 a.m. Fannie King, 19, was thrown from the buggy and died instantly, Lafayette County deputies said. The horse also died. The buggy driver, Frannie King’s brother, Samuel King, 30, had serious injuries. He was first taken to the Darlington hospital. then air-lifted 50 miles to a Trauma One facility in Madison. The Kings had been at gathering 20 miles away near Platteville. The semi-truck driver, 39, from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, was not hurt. The buggy was equipped with LED lights, deputies said. Whether the lights were operating was impossible to determine from the wreckage, deputies said. The accident was on a straight stretch of State Highway 81, which runs 120 miles from Beloit to Cassville on the Mississippi River. The accident was a couple miles west of Darlington at Burke Road. Highway 81 closed 6-1/2 hours.
