PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon State Police says a horse that wandered onto Highway 99 near Junction City caused three vehicles to crash.
Police say the horse left a nearby pasture around 10:15 p.m. Friday and soon after a 59-year-old Harrisburg man struck the horse with his 1988 Pontiac. A second car, driven by a 39-year-old Eugene woman, avoided hitting the horse and pulled over to help the first car. As she helped the first driver, a 17-year-old teen hit the horse, flipping his Ford pickup truck onto its side, striking the woman’s car that was pulled over.
The teen and 59-year-old driver were taken to the hospital with minor injures.
The horse died after being struck twice be the vehicles.
