A crash on southbound I680 north of Stone Valley Road in Alamo was further complicated early Sunday morning when the involved vehicle turned out to be a pickup truck hauling a horse trailer with two horses aboard.
The incident, reported at 6:28a.m., brought first responders to the scene as one of the trailered animals managed to extricate itself and was briefly on the freeway while a second horse remained trapped inside the tilted trailer.
Firefighters and police attempted to handle the scene while caring for both human truck driver and addled horses when the cavalry – in the form of a passerby hauling an empty horse trailer sized up the situation and pulled over to assist.
(Join us here for a silent, collective YAY for that Good Samaritan! Ed.)
Crews managed to transfer the injured animals to the passing trailer and, we believe, the owner and new best pahdnuh drove to a quieter, calmer place than an awakening freeway to re-trailer the horses and get them to a veterinarian for treatment.
What are the odds that an empty horse trailer shows up just when you need one??
We know, right? All we can come up with is that there’s a local horse show or something and folks were headed that way… but, as granddaddy used to say: “If the Gods smile and grant you luck, snatch it up…”
Awesome outcome!
Las Trampas is near by, so are other Horse facilities.
Does this qualify for “Wild West”?
Firestone 11R
Well, we don’t think they had tandem horse trailers back in Wyatt’s day but we’ll leave the question to the remuda… had to be pretty wild for them out there.
My buddy, a fellow volunteer firefighter came to a similar situation, he organized the guys and all together they pulled the horse out of the trailer by the TAIL! The tail was undamaged. Good trick to remember.