Across rural America, a quiet transportation shift is unfolding on gravel roads long dominated by horses and black buggies.

Three Amish children died on the way to school when their horse-drawn buggy was rear-ended by an SUV in northern Indiana, news outlets reported. The accident happened just before 8 a.m. on April 9.

A dead horse lay in the snowy field still attached to its mangled buggy. Henry Troyer, the 27-year-old Amish driver, lay nearby barely clinging to life as the sun rose in the east. A black lantern box ...

When Amos Stoltzfoos moved his family to Littlestown in 2020, he said they were one of just 11 Amish families in the area.