The decision not to charge Ronald Ramsey, who was 83 at the time of the crash, was made in consultation with the family of the children, officials in Michigan said.
No criminal charges will be filed against a man who slammed into the back of a horse-drawn buggy in Michigan in September 2019, killing three Amish children and injuring another, officials said this week. The driver, Ronald Ramsey, was 83 at the time of the crash, according to a news release from the Eaton County Prosecuting Attorney’s office. Three children were killed at the scene of the crash, about 20 miles west of Lansing, and a fourth child was hospitalized, according to the Eaton County Sheriff’s Office. The children were all siblings between the ages of 6 and 13 and were on their way home from school, unaccompanied by an adult, said Sheriff Tom Reich of Eaton County. The decision not to charge Mr. Ramsey, now 84, was not a statement about his criminal culpability, the office said, but “based on Ramsey’s age, lack of criminal history, and the current Covid-19 pandemic, it is unlikely that he would be incarcerated if convicted.
