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Watch: Spooked Horses Crash Carriage Into Stanley Park Seawall

Darpan News Desk IANS, 08 Nov, 2016 12:46 PM
  • Watch: Spooked Horses Crash Carriage Into Stanley Park Seawall
Some tourists in Stanley Park went for an unexpected ride after a pair of horses pulling their carriage were spooked during an anti-pipeline protest.
 
The carriage was stopped for the protesters, when someone in a car sounded a horn and spooked the horses. 
 

The animals jumped the curb, pulling the carriage into a bench and throwing one woman off. Several passengers proceeded to jumped off the carriage. No one was hurt in the incident. 
 
Both the Vancouver police and fire department were on the scene to look over the tourists shaken up by the accident.
 
The cost of the damage to Stanley Park structures is currently unknown. 

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