Minnesota Woman Charged For Hit & Run Crash With Amish Buggy

Spring Valley, MN (KROC-AM News) - The Fillmore County Attorney's Office today filed charges against a Spring Valley woman accused of a hit and run involving an Amish buggy last month.

The criminal complaint against 32-year-old Brittany Nicole Edgar lists one felony charge of criminal vehicular operation, a gross misdemeanor count of the same charge, and four misdemeanor citations for leaving the scene of an accident, careless driving, giving false information to an officer, and failure to provide proof of insurance.

The court document indicates Edgar admitted to investigators that she was driving the car that crashed into the back of an Amish buggy on a rural road north of Spring Valley around 10 PM on February 16. The collision sent the buggy into the ditch and resulted in injuries to seven children and their parents.

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According to the charges, several of the children suffered serious injuries. A 12-year-old child had a fractured skull, a three-year-old boy had a broken arm, and a one-year-old suffered facial fractures and other injuries. The mother and father and the other children were left with bumps and bruises.

The criminal complaint says investigators obtained a search warrant to examine the data on Edgar's cell phone and found evidence that she was engaged in an exchange of text messages around the time the crash occurred. Shortly after the collision, Edgar's phone data also shows she sent a Facebook message but indicated she had just was involved in a car accident.

The court document says she became a suspect in the hit-and-run because one of the Fillmore County deputies who responded to the crash spotted her driving a car with significant front end damage and a broken headlight. After he pulled her over, Edgar told the deputies she had collided with a deer and was allowed to leave with a warning because the deputy was under the mistaken impression that an SUV parked at the scene had collided with the buggy.

It was after he arrived at the crash scene that the deputy learned but it was a white passenger car that had smashed into the buggy, which was equipped with flashing lights. At that point, the deputy asked a dispatcher to link the information from his earlier traffic stop to the crash for a follow-up investigation, which ultimately led to the charges against Edgar.

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