TAKEN BY STORM.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16674, 2 March 1925, Page 6

TAKEN BY STORM.

WILD RUNAWAY. HORSE LEAPS INTO MOTOR. CAR, (Special to the Herald.) OIiKISTCTIURGiI, this day. Galloping madly down the Riccarton road a. horse jumped into o. motor-ear at the .intersection of Dean’s Avenue. It jumped out again and disappeared in a cloud of dust, after losing its rider. Strangely enough the two men who were in the car were not seriously injured, but the car was damaged. From information available to the Sun, it appears that the horse got away from its rider, A. Whitelaw, at Clarence road, and, taking the bit between its teeth, galloped down Riccarton road. Motorists wondered what had happened, for the modem counterpart of the classical Pegasus passed them in its wild rush. All they saw was a rider with his head down in the horse’s mane, riding Tod Sloan fashion, and a cloud of dust. A motor car, containing two men, was proceeding south along Dean’s Avenue, and the horse and the car met at the intersection. In an instant the horse had landed in the car, taking the windscreen in its stride, and considerably damaging other parts of the car. Fortunately the horse’s hoofs did not injure (lie driver and his companion very much, hut I hey were considerably shaken and bruised. The crash attracted people in the vicinity of the intersection, hut. they arrived in time only to hear the horse’s wild snorts and to see the animal leap out of the car again and continue its wild flight. When the horse rose to try to clear the obstacle that had so suddenly happened across its’path, the rider fell off and rolled out of Hie way.