early Sunday morning, it came on the A3 motorway in Wollerau to an extraordinary accident. A car driver hit two free-running horses which were at this time on the road. Both of the Automobilist, as well as the two animals came in the collision were killed.

The accident happened shortly before 4 o’clock in the morning. The driver was on the lane in the direction of Zurich. About a kilometre into the sheet Tunnel between Wollerau and Richterswil, he joined in the darkness with the two horses. How do the weather conditions have played in the crash of a role, it is not possible to say. When the police arrived, it was snowing lightly.

horses can’t skip the fence

The victim is a 53-year-old man. The roof of his white VW Passat was ripped open by the impact. The lifeguard resuscitated the man, he died but still on the accident.

The police are currently investigating how the horses came on the road. The highway is surrounded on this section of a high fence, can’t skip a horse, according to experts. May the horses on the highway entrance to the roadway. Those of Richterswil is located about 500 meters from the scene of the accident.

horse stables in the vicinity of the accident site some. Neighbors of a close operation with Open housing want to have heard a clock in the night the tramp of horses on your farm, as you said the online portal “20 minutes”. After the horses were gone but back again to the pasture.

animals from Open housing

According to the “views” are loose the horses from a farm in Samstagern. More and more Horse owners put on open stable attitudes. In such stables of horses in the stables or out into the open can, whenever you want. The fence is damaged or a gate open, you can escape.

In the Bernese Oberland were five years ago, also in the middle of the night horses on the highway. One of the five horses from the stables of the National horse center Bern collided with a car driver. This remained unharmed, the horse survived the accident. The incident came about because an Unknown person had opened the doors of 17 stables.

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Created: 04.02.2019, 11:00 PM