A person has died after a horse collided with the car he was touring in by Norco, California.
On Sunday, Sept. 22 at round 2:05 a.m. native time, firefighters responded to stories of a “solo car site visitors collision with a horse” on the northbound lanes of Interstate 15, per a Facebook submit shared by the California Division of Forestry and Hearth Safety (CAL FIRE) / Riverside County Hearth Division.
“Upon arrival, firefighters declared one sufferer and horse perished on the scene, and the opposite affected person (the driving force) was transported by floor ambulance with minor accidents,” the message learn.
Native outlet The San Bernardino Sun cited California Freeway Patrol spokesman Javier Navarro as stating that the sufferer was a 25-year-old man who had been within the entrance seat of a grey Honda Accord when the animal reportedly went by the automobile’s windshield.
The horse reportedly acquired unfastened after the automobile towing its trailer struck a guardrail. Based on The San Bernardino Solar, the horse escaped from the trailer and made it to the median earlier than attempting to cross the freeway. A black Honda Accord then “clipped” the animal, per the outlet, earlier than the horse crashed into the victims’ automobile’s windshield.
“The horse was additionally a fatality, sadly,” Riverside County Hearth Division spokeswoman Maggie Cline De La Rosa advised the Los Angeles Times.
Per the Associated Press, the trailer crash sparked a collection of crashes on the freeway, together with an accident the place a semitractor-trailer hit the empty horse provider.
Navarro and CAL FIRE / Riverside County Hearth Division did not instantly reply when contacted by PEOPLE. The sufferer has not but been recognized.
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Per the Los Angeles Occasions, the particular person taken to hospital with “minor accidents” was the 27-year-old male driver of the Honda Accord.
Navarro advised the outlet that nobody had been arrested and what triggered the automobile carrying the horse trailer to veer off the highway stays beneath investigation.