US EditionTwin Driver Sentenced to 4 Years for Killing 2 Children in Buggy Crash
Samantha Jo Petersen drove under the influence of methamphetamine, causing a fatal buggy crash that killed two children; she must pay nearly $40,000 in restitution.
- On Thursday, Samantha Jo Petersen, 37, was sentenced to four years after pleading guilty to criminal vehicular homicide and criminal vehicular operation in Fillmore County, Minn.
- After the crash, investigators found Petersen admitted methamphetamine use and convinced her identical twin, Sarah Beth Petersen, to falsely claim responsibility for the buggy collision.
- The collision killed Wilma Miller, 7, and Irma Miller, 11, while four children were in the buggy, including survivors Allan Miller, 9, and Rose Miller, 13, and one with traumatic brain injury.
- Petersen must pay nearly $40,000 in restitution and will be held at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Shakopee, serving two years, eight months in custody with supervised release.
- Initially, Petersen faced 21 charges related to the Sept. 25, 2023 crash before resolving most counts in a plea, while her defense sought 364 days at Fillmore County Jail on work release, citing prior DWIs and completed inpatient and outpatient treatment programs.
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Prison for woman who admitted she was driving, not her twin, when she hit buggy and killed 2 Amish kids
A 37-year-old woman received a four-year term after admitting that she — and not her twin sister — was driving when her SUV struck an Amish buggy in southeastern Minnesota and killed two of the four children aboard. Samantha Jo…
Woman sentenced to 4 years in prison for Amish buggy crash that killed 2 children
Samantha Jo Petersen, 37, was sentenced on Thursday to four years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of criminal vehicular homicide and one count of criminal vehicular operation
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Driver in fatal Amish buggy crash sentenced to 4 years in prison
PRESTON, Minn. — The father of two children who were killed when Samantha Jo Petersen slammed the SUV she was driving into the buggy they were in says he thought he did enough to keep his children safe. He personally trained one of the gentlest ponies he could find and installed a slow-moving vehicle sign and reflective pole on the vehicle. “I had not considered other people and their decision-making,” he said in a written statement to Fillmore …
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