We had quite an experience last night. Hubs and I ran an errand out to a shopping area out east of town and then headed home in the truck. We took a road home that is fairly heavily traveled, but in some areas is very dark at night--no streetlights, no yard lights, not what I would call rural, but more acreage than the houses in my neighborhood, to be sure.
All of a sudden out of nowhere a horse bolted across the road. It was almost impossible to see them because of the darkness. Hubs was driving, and somehow he mostly missed the horse. His only option was to pull the truck right, and for some reason the horse lunged in that direction as well. We heard a loud "clunk" and pulled our truck over to the side. The horse, amazingly, did not even stop but continued galloping down the side of the road. With the lack of light it was impossible to tell where the horse belonged or, after a few seconds, where the horse had gone.
All we could do at that point was call 911 to alert the authorities to try to get the horse off the busy road, if they could possibly find them.
The weird part was that hubs, fortunately, had been able to slow down considerably and he thought that he and the horse were probably traveling about the same slow speed at this point. For whatever reason, the horse did not even dent our truck. The side mirror bent in from the impact, as it was meant to do, but easily went back in place. There may be some permanent scratches and maybe a small dent, but quite amazingly that was all that happened.
We had invited kiddo to go with us on our errands, but they had elected to stay at their home. That's a good thing, as we would have been in the Civic instead, and that would have been a very different scenario with a horse. Now I'm glad my hubs let the truck run really low on gas, so we took it to gas it up in the midst of our errands. That probably saved us significant injury as we might well have seen if we had driven the Civic.
We have no idea where the horse went, which is very sad indeed, but we also didn't know how to find it or what to do that would have been useful other than alerting the authorities immediately. I certainly hope the horse is okay, and that another driver did not meet up with the same situation we did.
It was hard for hubs to get to sleep after that. Gee, adrenaline and fear keep you awake? I would never have guessed. ;-P
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Wow! How scary. It's one thing for a deer to dart in front of you, but a HORSE?!?!
That's... well, that's a horse of a different color.
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