2 Horses Struck and Killed by Cars in Dallas After Breaking Loose from Trailer on the Highway

Anunusual scene on the highwayin Texas resulted in the deaths of two horses.

Around 7:30 a.m. on Monday morning, Dallas police began receiving calls about horses that wereon the loosenear Interstate 35E and Texas 183, with one caller advising that a horse had been hit, Dallas County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Raul Reyna told PEOPLE in a statement.

When police arrived at the scene, they saw several horses loose around the area, and discovered that a second horse had been hit.

The owner of the animals told authorities there were 13 horses in total, and that all of them had escaped from their trailer.

“Deputies found that the trailer door had opened as the truck was on the highway and the ponies managed to get out onto the freeway with two of them being struck and killed,” Reyna told PEOPLE.

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The 11 remaining horses managed to make it through the incident alive — although authorities had to temporarily close down the highway in order to move the horses that had been hit, and locate all of the animals, who left the scene quickly.

By 8:05 a.m., the two deceased horses were removed from the highway, and authorities re-opened several lanes of traffic.

Within the hour, the owner was reunited with the remaining 11 ponies, traveling to all of the various locations where they were found in order to pick them up.

source: people.com