Trailer accident on the Cross Bronx Expressway

Toccet02 · Postby **Toccet02** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:08 pm

According to my husband, a trailer carrying Tbreds to Belmont had its floor partially give way :shock:

and despite frantic signalling from passing motorists, kept going.
One horse was euthanized.
More details as I hear...apparently just happened and you know how innacurate early reports can be.
Just a heads up if anyone is possible affected here.
Hope not.

Arctic Cielo · Postby **Arctic Cielo** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:46 pm

Can't be good...

Gerry · Postby **Gerry** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:49 pm

I heard about it an hour ago on CBS radio AM 880..they said 4 horses were on the trailer, when one kicked its leg thru the trailer...the other 3 were put on another trailer but the van had to be put down....scares me since I know a mare was being transported to Belmont today and I need to hear details on who the van was and which horse was put down...anyone else have any news?

Toccet02 · Postby **Toccet02** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:51 pm

Just that the injured horse will be (not has been) put down.
Driver didn't "keep going"--just a nasty rumor I guess.
we had a cop dragged by a car at the same time so it ain't the top story here.

Gerry · Postby **Gerry** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:57 pm

well my mare is safe, just confirmed with the van driver that this wasnt him

also read on http://www.newsradio88.com/pages/254964.php?contentType=4&contentId=340302

Toccet02 · Postby **Toccet02** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:09 pm

whew!

SwordDancer · Postby **SwordDancer** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:16 pm

According to the chanel 11 news the injired horse was " Please Be Quick "
a 3 ye old gelding
"

Toccet02 · Postby **Toccet02** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:37 am

Yeah, and the driver's name was "Willie Wilson" or something similar.
The horse's leg was not in contact with the ground but with one of the wheels.

Foggytrip · Postby **Foggytrip** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:34 am

God thats brutal. Not the drivers fault, all he does is drive the thing. Just a freak accident.

Gerry · Postby **Gerry** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:50 am

The horse who was put down is Please be Quick. Here is a story I found this morninghttp://www.nypost.com/seven/02222007/news/regionalnews/horse_dies_in_freak_bx__mishap_regionalnews_douglas_montero____and_tatiana_deligiannakis.htm
in another newpaper they said the van company "Ebert Vans" denied that a horse was even injured.

Does anyone know Ebert Vans? I am curious about the condition of their trailers, if a horses leg can "fall thru" the floor.

jmy319 · Postby **jmy319** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:04 am

Yes, have heard of them and dealt with them- I work for a shipping company. Very nice people who know what they are doing and have a lot of horse experience. Their equipment has always been in good shape too. Had to have been a freak accident.

Toccet02 · Postby **Toccet02** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:37 am

The ASPCA was said to be investigating the trailer.
I don't know how they knew this, but it was said the horse kicked through the bottom.

el camino · Postby **el camino** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:45 am

I can't believe it. I was doing a shipment up from Florida that very day and came across the cross Bronx at about 6 AM. I am always so paranoid and check and check and check everything. Plus my trailer is only a year old and has a lifetime warranty on the floor. My heart goes out to the owner and the driver, he must be devastated. That road is the worst, all those potholes and bumps could not have helped each time all that weight bounces up and down.

Toccet02 · Postby **Toccet02** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:46 pm

Oh yeah. For those of you not from the Bronx . . . or New York,
Cross Bronx is a Hell-Hole.
Consistenty rated the worst road in the city every year.
We never take it if we can avoid it.
Crowded, bumpy, smelly, claustrophobic . . .they built apartment buildings right on top of it in places.

Crystal · Postby **Crystal** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:57 pm

the GW must be right up there too. It has it's lovely parts..