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Hazardous horse herd causes crash on stretch of highway

By Ben Hooper
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Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A herd of horses stampeding on the shoulder of a Russian highway proved to be a distracting hazard and caused a collision that was caught on camera.

Dashboard camera footage recorded by a driver on a stretch of highway in the Chelyabinsk area shows a huge herd of horses running along the side of the road, with some of the equines standing in the roadway in front of a car stopped in the right lane to avoid hitting the animals.

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The stopped car isn't noticed in time by another vehicle coming up the same lane and the driver, possibly distracted by the horses, rear-ends the stopped vehicle.

The horses, spooked by the crash, vacate the road and continue to run along the shoulder.

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