Published: Friday, August 27, 2010
Crash flips horse trailer on I-5, blocking traffic
MARYSVILLE -- The horse is going to be OK.
An accident around 11:20 this morning on I-5 near Marysville caused a small horse trailer to overturn on I-5, blocking two lanes of traffic.
"Luckily, there were no injuries," Washington State Patrol trooper Keith Leary said.
That includes the horse, which was alone in the trailer being towed behind a pickup truck.
Leary said a woman apparently was driving her car about 80 mph. She fell asleep at the wheel and clipped the back of the horse trailer.
The force of the collision caused the trailer to separate from the pickup at freeway speeds. The trailer flipped onto its left side, horse inside.
The Marysville Fire Department used special hydraulic equipment known as the Jaws of Life to cut open the trailer so the horse could be rescued, Leary said.
The horse was blindfolded to keep it from panicking because of the sounds of the rescue equipment and freeway traffic.
"It could have been a lot worse," Leary said. "We could have had an injured or dead horse."
Names, ages and hometowns of the drivers involved were not immediately available.
The two right lanes of northbound I-5 near the Tulalip Casino were blocked due to the mishap, Leary said.
An accident around 11:20 this morning on I-5 near Marysville caused a small horse trailer to overturn on I-5, blocking two lanes of traffic.
"Luckily, there were no injuries," Washington State Patrol trooper Keith Leary said.
That includes the horse, which was alone in the trailer being towed behind a pickup truck.
Leary said a woman apparently was driving her car about 80 mph. She fell asleep at the wheel and clipped the back of the horse trailer.
The force of the collision caused the trailer to separate from the pickup at freeway speeds. The trailer flipped onto its left side, horse inside.
The Marysville Fire Department used special hydraulic equipment known as the Jaws of Life to cut open the trailer so the horse could be rescued, Leary said.
The horse was blindfolded to keep it from panicking because of the sounds of the rescue equipment and freeway traffic.
"It could have been a lot worse," Leary said. "We could have had an injured or dead horse."
Names, ages and hometowns of the drivers involved were not immediately available.
The two right lanes of northbound I-5 near the Tulalip Casino were blocked due to the mishap, Leary said.
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