‘Going with God,’ conservative Amish sue Ohio over lights law
February 24, 2025
In the 1960s, the Swartzentrubers — one of the most conservative subgroups of Old Order Amish — worked out a deal with the Ohio government: instead of marking their vehicles with an orange slow moving vehicle emblem and bright battery-operated blinkers, they would instead stick reflective tape on their buggies and use kerosene lanterns as headlights.
That agreement stood for decades.
But about two years ago, in response to mounting safety concerns, the state passed a new law requiring animal-drawn vehicles to bear a flashing yellow light to increase their visibility.
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