STARK COUNTY, Ohio — A Stark County mom is calling for the addition of designated Amish buggy lanes on rural Ohio roads following the death of her son.

Mom Dawna Wensel said her 19-year-old son Zachary was kind, hardworking and had his whole life ahead of him.

"He would've given the shirt off of his back in a second, even if he didn't have one," she said. "That was just the kind of person he was."

All of it came to a halt when he was riding his motorcycle along a Holmes County road in March 2024.

"He was coming up over a hill," Wensel said. "When he got to the top of the hill, there was an SUV following a buggy. The report showed that he had less than 100 feet to have a reaction time. He had no other choice but to go into the SUV."

The crash left him with a traumatic brain injury, and

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