My wife decided to go for a run last night so I took the little one for a ride down to the grocery store just to kill some time. On the way home it was dark, I caught a glimpse of something running toward me from the right side of the road. I hit the brakes and ending up hitting the back legs of a horse, with the drivers side left bumper, knocking it into the oncoming lane where immediately a tractor-trailer carrying coils of steel smacked it square at full speed (55mph posted) which I viewed from less than 8' away. I watched the semi roll down the road in my rearview mirror as I pulled off the road. The semi ended up on it's top on my side of the road in someone's front yard. The driver was trapped but he was alive. The little one and I are both fine. My wife's car has relatively light damage to the front end and horse manure sprayed down the driver's side from the semi impacting the horse...gross...but shows how close it was. If I'd been 1 second sooner the horse would have been in my lap, 1 second later and the semi would have rolled over us. Someone was looking out for us yesterday.

It turned out there were 3 horses out running around. The lady in front of me nearly hit a white horse a second or two after I hit the brown one. Neighbors were saying it was the third time in recent months the horses had gotten out. They people responsible for the horses only have the white tape style electric fence and the property is very close to a busy road.



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