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<\/a><\/p>\nKelli Cross, managing partner of Sovereign Farm, said her husband was hauling two yearlings to the swimming pool Monday morning when a driver rear-ended their trailer on Paris Pike and didn\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n
The impact sent the yearlings to the ground. Cross said both horses are back home recovering, but the lasting effects and their value at July\u2019s auction are still unknown.<\/p>\n
Repeated crashes<\/p>\n
Cross says she\u2019s been hit five times total, three times by uninsured drivers and another two where the driver took off. One of those landed her and her husband in the hospital for months and cost them more than $1 million.<\/p>\n
She estimates she\u2019ll have to pay $15,000 to fix the trailer from Monday\u2019s crash.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re hit, and they don\u2019t have insurance, you still have to bear the brunt, you know, pay your deductible and get things fixed,\u201d Cross said.<\/p>\n
Livelihood at stake<\/p>\n
For Cross, a hit-and-run crash isn\u2019t just an inconvenience; it\u2019s a threat to her family\u2019s livelihood. <\/p>\n
Cross has been at the Paris farm for about eight years. She trains horses for clients and raises her own to be sold at auctions.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a lot of people take corn to market or anything else, this is the crop that we\u2019re raising to sell to provide for our family and our livelihood,\u201d Cross said. \u201cWe do have employees here, so it doesn\u2019t just impact me; it impacts others in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cross says the industry touches everyone in the horse capital of the world, and hopes that other people will start driving more responsibly and take accountability when they don\u2019t. <\/p>\n
Search for driver<\/p>\n
Cross said the Paris Police Department is working with her to try to find the person who hit them on Monday.<\/p>\n