{"id":192428,"date":"2025-09-01T21:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192428\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:19:10","slug":"runaway-central-park-carriage-horse-escapes-handler-as-passengers-jump-to-safety-see-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192428\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaway Central Park Carriage Horse Escapes Handler as Passengers Jump to Safety: See Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Horse carriage operators stationed near the West 59th Street entrance to Central Park. Photo by Gus Saltonstall<\/p>\n

By West Side Rag<\/strong><\/p>\n

A horse pulling a carriage escaped its handler Monday in Central Park, knocking down a traffic sign and forcing passengers to jump out of the vehicle to escape, dramatic video of the event shows.<\/p>\n

The runaway horse got loose on Labor Day near the Central Park Dairy building, close to the 65th Street Transverse Road<\/a>, according to video posted on the Stopping NYC Horse Abuse Instagram page.<\/a><\/p>\n

Video shows the horse pulling a carriage with no driver; the horse runs over a crosswalk sign before continuing down the road as passengers jump out of the back, and a man, presumably the horse\u2019s handler, runs behind the cart yelling out.<\/p>\n

\u201cCall 911,\u201d an eyewitness says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMoments ago in Central Park, a terrified horse spooked and bolted out of control, dragging a carriage full of customers and smashing through a stop sign, garbage cans, and other objects in its path,\u201d reads the caption on the Stopping NYC Horse Abuse Instagram account.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson from the Central Park Conservancy confirmed to West Side Rag that the horse has been contained as of 3:20 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease read our letter from last month on why carriage horses no longer belong in Central Park,\u201d the spokesperson wrote in an email to the Rag. \u201cToday\u2019s incident<\/a>\u00a0only underscores our concern about the dangers posed by horses in the increasingly crowded Park.\u201d<\/p>\n

The runaway horse comes weeks after the conservancy publicly called<\/a> for the first time for the end of horse-drawn carriages in Central Park. The call from the conservancy came one week after a horse pulling a carriage collapsed and died<\/a>\u00a0in Hell\u2019s Kitchen, which reignited the conversation around banning the form of transportation in the city.<\/p>\n

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