Horse Leaps Into Windshield of Moving Car (Awesome Video)

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[Korah]

In the Galilee region of Northern Israel, a tourist captured this video footage of three horses galloping down the road in the opposite lane in front of them.

The scene soon took a bizarre turn however, when a car came towards the horses. The two smaller horses swerved to avoid the vehicle, but the third horse decided to try his equestrian skills by jumping over the car instead. Unfortunately he was a tad bit low on his jump, because the horse leaped straight at the car putting his front legs through the windshield before jumping out and over the roof.

Rest assured though, reports are that the car may have been irreparably damaged but the driver only suffered minor cuts from smashed glass, while the horse was barely injured.

Follow the link below to see the video of a,

Horse Leaps Into the Windshield of a Moving Car

[Korah]

I saw this happen when I was a young girl. The horse had to be shot, but that was back in 1961 and the car was a Studebaker. Maybe the fact that today cars are made of tinfoil and plastic is why the horse escaped with just bruises.

Either way the driver can thank God they are not spending a long time in the hospital, because that was one major head on collision.

[alancarp]

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[1rudeboy]

Big horse, stupid driver. Phenomenally stupid, in fact . . was he thinking the horses would veer off as he approaches? I wouldn’t be surprised he honked his horn, the imbecile.

[ponygirl]

I’ve seen horses do crazy stuff like this and walk away unscathed... only to break a bunch of bones in a leg while pawing at the stall door.

[Korah]

Big horse, stupid driver. Phenomenally stupid, in fact... was he thinking the horses would veer off as he approaches? I wouldn’t be surprised he honked his horn, the imbecile.

Yea, I noticed that also. He never ever even acted like he would slow down to avoid a collision. I hope he had good insurance, because that car is wasted.

[1rudeboy]

I’m not a horse expert, but I’ll wager that the horse didn’t even have the capability to understand the car was moving towards him . . . I’ll bet it looked stationary to him.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I’ve seen horses do crazy stuff like this and walk away unscathed... only to break a bunch of bones in a leg while pawing at the stall door."

I was thinking about that too. They'll take all the leaping and pounding of a steeplechase without too much wear and tear, then break a leg in a stupid little gopher hole.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I’m not a horse expert, but I’ll wager that the horse didn’t even have the capability to understand the car was moving towards him . . . I’ll bet it looked stationary to him."

Actually that would explain the short leap too. If the car and horse were both moving toward each other at 20 mph that would be a relative speed of 40 mph. If the horse perceived the car as a stationary object, it may have overestimated his own speed going into the leap.

[UCANSEE2]

And I thought running into a deer was bad.

[NavyCanDo]

I nearly hit one on an on-ramp to a freeway.
Picture this eerie scene. 10:30PM on a dark night and I'm accelerating on the on-ramp when I notice brake-lights from several cars ahead of me. A second later a white horse with the look of terror on it's face crosses in front of me and runs along the drivers side of my car heading behind me. It all happened within seconds, but it felt like it was all in slow motion. It gave me chills thinking about the horrific look it had, and I still play out the scene every time I take that ramp, many years later.

Learned the next day it was hit by a car and killed as it crossed the freeway, and that it escaped from a horse trailer

[UCANSEE2]

I think the horse was trying to prove he had the right of way.

Either that or he didn’t like the looks of the driver.

[Axenolith]

If you look carefully, his legs didn’t go through the front windshield. They were folded at the leap, and he hit the windshield with his knees and chest, sliding up and over the roof.

[Korah]

There’s only going to be more of these horse attacks unless we stop global warming now.

Damn Global Warming. Now it's hurting the poor wild horses.

We should move all the horses to Nevada for safety.

No, wait a minute, they shoot horses in Nevada don't they?

Damn guns.

[1rudeboy]

Not to mention that the horse looks like a warmblood—so he’s thinking, “yeah, I can jump it no problem.”

[Korah]

Not to mention that the horse looks like a warmblood—so he’s thinking, “yeah, I can jump it no problem.”

And the driver is thinking, "Bring it on big boy"!

I'm guessing that the horse is smarter than the driver of the vehicle.

[central_va]

beautiful horse though.

[rahbert]

In Nevada the wold horses run wild. The rural highways
are signed for wild horses. I live on Gieger Grade the highway to Virginia City, and horses are free to cross at their whim. Pays to look out and be prepared to stop.

[Korah]

True, but just two years ago there was reports the federal government was rounding a bunch of them up to shoot because they were starving.

It was supposed to be a humanitarian killing.

They did the same thing in Hawaii, but that was because of overpopulation.

[rahbert]

No they aren’t put down (unless they are sick or lame).

They are either relocated or held for adoption. Shooting them is a federal crime.