Take a look at the news video showing the trailer after the accident. And look at the horses afterwards. Hard to believe they got out of there with so little injury!
Also amazing that the writer is employed as a writer! Such bad writing. The first sentence doesn’t even make sense:
A crash involving a car and a pickup truck, the latter towing a trailer carrying race horses, collided Friday afternoon on Hamilton Street.
A crash collided?
I would sue the guys a** off :mad:
I used to live in that town! That street is always super busy (for a small town).
Florida? WHile we have a town named Geneva, I do not think this happened in FLorida. Finger Lakes is upstate NY, I believe.
That happened around the corner from my office and, when a coworker told me that there were horses running around the parking lot and an overturned trailer, I just “knew” it was someone I know from the track. Lo and behold, I do indeed know the driver and this is the SECOND time in less than 6 months that someone has plowed in to him while towing a trailer. The first time, a woman went right through a stop sign (the trailer was empty) and she died. Ken was okay.
Then this happened last week because another thoughtless/distracted driver turned left right in front of him and caused the trailer to jackknife and flip over. I have no clue how those horses didn’t sustain worse injuries. Ironically, one of the horses was a Finger Lakes Finest placement travelling to her new home!
Indeed, this is central New York, in the heart of the Finger Lakes.
There needs to be a PSA campaign regarding sharing the road with rigs and understanding that they can’t stop on a dime. It’s so upsetting to me that people are in such a hurry that common courtesy on the road is becoming a thing of the past it seems.
Just Sunday I had a woman decide she NEEDED to be in front of me to make her exit, instead of slowing down and getting in the miles and miles of empty space behind me. She moved into my lane with her foot off the gas, and I had to brake to avoid hitting her, then she put on her brakes as she was still going too fast for the exit she was about to miss. She was probably 2 feet off my bumper.
I stood on top of my horn until she was out of sight and my legs shook for the next 10 minutes.
