Sheriff Darrell Hodges, who has served Cumberland County for 18 years, says he has responded to too many fatal crashes involving the Amish and Mennonite communities.

"To be perfectly honest, I've picked up the last child on the side of the road that I ever want to that's been killed in an accident, especially in a horse and buggy," Hodges said.

The growing Amish population across Virginia shares rural roads in horse-drawn buggies traveling about eight miles per hour while vehicles travel at highway speeds.

"If you pop over a curb or pop over a hill and all of a sudden there is something going eight miles an hour and you're doing 55, it closes the gap really quickly," Hodges said.

Virginia has experienced several horse and buggy crashes over the past year, including incidents in Cumberl

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