PRESTON, Minn. – A Spring Valley woman was charged for a hit-and-run buggy crash into an Amish buggy in February. Brittany Nicole Edgar, 32, was accused of:
> Criminal vehicular operation causing substantial bodily harm.
> Gross misdemeanor criminal vehicular operation.
> Leaving the scene of a collision.
> Careless driving.
> Failure to provide proof of insurance.
> Providing false information to an officer.
NOTE: This case is not the Amish buggy wreck involving the Petersen twins and two fatalities, also near Soring Valley but in September. Both cases are moving through Fillmore County District Court at the same time. Petersen case.
In court documents investigators say this: Edgar drove her white 2008 Pontiac Grand Pix into a horse-drawn buggy carrying nine Amish. This was about 10 p.m. on February 16. Two miles ahead she was stopped by a deputy for a damaged fender. She told the deputy she had hit a deer and was let go. Meanwhile at the wreck, other deputies found pieces of a white Grand Prix in both lanes, on the shoulder, and in the ditch. Contacted at home later, Edgar admitted having hit the buggy. No one in the buggy died, but a 12-year-old child suffered a brain bleed, a 3-year-old child suffered a broken arm. a 1-year-old hurt suffered a skull fracture and a swollen eye.
Earlier: Loose ends still in car-buggy collision
Edgar. At her home jn Spring Valley a couple days after the wreck, police found her damaged Pontiac Grand Prix. Its front bumper had been removed for fixing.
Edgar profile
Edgar has a history of bad driving: Speeding and careless driving in neighboring Dodge County in 2018; drunken driving, also in Dodge County, in 2019; and driving after license revocation in 2021.