Eleven horses have died and others had been injured in a motorway accident involving a horsebox in France.
The lorry, which had come from the UK, was travelling on the A16 motorway, south of Amiens within the Somme area, yesterday afternoon (17 July), carrying polo ponies from Britain to Spain.
A spokesperson for the Préfet de la Somme, the native authorities authority, informed H&H this afternoon that 11 horses have died. 5 survived and have been taken to a veterinary clinic for therapy.
Footage present the trailer component of the HGV tipped to at least one aspect, on to the central reservation. It has been reported that a number of the horses had been thrown away from the car and others had been trapped beneath the trailer.
A spokesperson for the Hurlingham Polo Affiliation informed H&H: “The HPA is devastated to listen to of the accident in France involving a number of polo ponies and we shall be working to help the homeowners in any approach we are able to.”
Every week in the past, the Préfet de la Somme launched figures displaying that there had been a “sharp improve” within the variety of accidents on the area’s roads this yr; a 64% improve within the variety of human fatalities from 2023.
From the beginning of the yr to 11 July there had been 158 highway accidents, inflicting 23 deaths, in comparison with 129 accidents and 14 fatalities in the identical interval final yr.
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