Car Passenger Dies After Horse Gets Loose from Trailer and Smashes Through Windshield: Reports

Mar. 15, 2025

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A man has died after a horse collided with the vehicle he was traveling in through Norco, California.

Local outletThe San Bernardino Suncited California Highway Patrol spokesman Javier Navarro as stating that the victim was a 25-year-old man who had been in the front seat of a gray Honda Accord when the animal reportedly went through the car’s windshield.

The horse reportedly got loose after the car towing its trailer struck a guardrail. According toThe San Bernardino Sun, the horse escaped from the trailer and made it to the median before trying to cross the freeway. A black Honda Accord then “clipped” the animal, per the outlet, before the horse crashed into the victims' car’s windshield.

“The horse was also a fatality, unfortunately,” Riverside County Fire Department spokeswoman Maggie Cline De La Rosa told theLos Angeles Times.

Per theAssociated Press, the trailer crash sparked a series of crashes on the highway, including an accident where a semitractor-trailer hit the empty horse carrier.

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Per theLos Angeles Times, the person taken to hospital with “minor injuries” was the 27-year-old male driver of the Honda Accord.

Navarro told the outlet that no one had been arrested and what caused the car carrying the horse trailer to veer off the road remains under investigation.

source: people.com