Runaway Horse Fatally Struck on Sunrise Highway

A tractor trailer struck and killed a horse that escaped from Manorville’s Double D Bar Ranch early Thursday morning, Suffolk police said.

Police said a 2005 Peterbilt tractor trailer was traveling east on Sunrise Highway, a half mile west of Exit 59, when it struck and killed the runaway horse that was standing in the roadway at about 2:50 a.m.

The 60-year-old male driver of the tractor trailer remained at the scene and was uninjured, police said.

Two additional horses owned by Double D Bar Ranch, which cares for prior abused or unwanted farm animals, that also escaped have now been located and returned home, police said Thursday afternoon.

The investigation is continuing.

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