Car strikes horse and buggy in Spring Garden

At 10:47PM on Sunday, August 9, Station 4-9, along with Medic 9, were dispatched to the 5100 block of Old Philadelphia Pike (Route 340) in the Spring Garden section of Salisbury Township for a vehicle accident. Responding units arrived on the scene to find a sedan that had collided with a horse and buggy.\
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Fortunately, there were no injuries to the humans involved in the accident, and all refused treatment and transport to a hospital; however the horse was injured and a veterinarian from Black Horse Veterinary Hospital was summoned to the scene to care for the horse. Due to the injureies the horse sustained, it was decided to euthanize the horse, which was later removed from the scene by a nieghboring farmer.\
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The Pennsylvania State Police investigated the incident. The final units cleared the scene shortly after midnight.