SPRING VALLEY, Minn. — A Spring Valley woman charged in a hit-and-run buggy incident in February told a sheriff’s deputy she had hit a deer when she was pulled over shortly after the crash.
Brittany Nicole Edgar, 32, faces a felony charge of criminal vehicular operation causing substantial bodily harm; gross misdemeanor criminal vehicular operation, leaving the scene of a collision; misdemeanor charges of leaving the scene of an accident; careless driving; failure to provide proof of insurance and a charge of providing false information to an officer.
Fillmore County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a crash after a driver struck a buggy near Spring Valley on Fillmore County Highway 1 shortly after 10 p.m. Feb. 16, 2024. Six people were injured and sent to a hospital. Two children hurt in the crash were seriously injured, reports show.
According to the criminal complaint:
A deputy responding to the crash spotted Edgar driving a white 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix with front-end damage. The deputy stopped the woman in Spring Valley. The woman said she had hit a deer while driving to her parents’ Spring Valley home. At the time, the deputy believed the driver of the car involved in the buggy crash was still at the site of the crash, so he let the woman go and continued heading to the crash.
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Deputies found parts of a white bumper at the crash and connected it to the officer who pulled Edgar over on his way to the scene. Deputies later followed up with the woman who again said she hit a deer but later admitted she had hit the buggy.
According to the filing, two of the injured children were treated in the pediatric ICU at Mayo Clinic Hospital-Saint Marys in Rochester. One of them, 12, suffered a brain bleed, the report shows. A one-year-old hurt in the crash had a skull fracture and a swollen eye. The third injured, age 3, suffered a broken arm, the complaint shows.
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