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Spooked carriage horse runs wild in NYC

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    Tourists, driver injured when romantic ride turns into disaster

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-- normal afternoon here along Central Park south the husband and wife and driver in the carriage ready for the horse to.

Taken for a ride when suddenly -- -- falls out of the truck across the street and speaks the horse.

And that set off a wild ride.

This is a carriage driver on his way to the hospital after he tried to control his -- you can see bandages on his arm and legs yeah.

This horse was dragging today.

The horse I was dragging the driver and the horse got away with the carriage and the two passengers still -- -- It took off down fifty ninth street into a very crowded Columbus Circle with the -- toppled over the carriage in the passengers inside.

He left the wheels behind -- golf again.

Is that a Smart phone don't that gallon and that -- -- bonds and over again.

This is all -- -- yeah me on some people who are right again that removes a couple miles from.

Now to sixtieth street where the horse hit a car and was finally able to break loose from what was left of his -- He got another two blocks -- for police were able to stop him.

This is video this afternoon from New Yorkers for clean livable safe streets you can see the horse was -- for a short time.

Today's accident brought out both sides of the carriage horse -- debate.

Carriage horses do not belong.

In midtown traffic anymore there's a reason they don't exist basically ended in modern day society and these are big horses there.

Acclimated to see any -- just because a force.

Once in a balloon spits doesn't mean that something terrible is going.

By 7 this evening the horse whose name is Oreo was back -- his stable on 52 street.

Waiting for -- vet apparently in good condition now than one single scratch.

And on any topic today wanted to speculate on the record about what might happen to this -- that some drivers told me privately that in some cases -- these horses get spooked.

Sometimes they're sent back to where they came from.

And Pennsylvania.

Near Central Park -- brown Fox 5 News.