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Runaway Horses Wrangled By Police On Route 202: Video
A video shows the horses in the middle of the highway early Wednesday morning. See video:
READINGTON, NJ — Runaway horses were found in the middle of Route 202 early Wednesday morning in Hunterdon County.
A video shared by Katie Patatie shows two horses in the grass median of Route 202 in Readington Township around 1:45 a.m.
"That is a horse. That is two horses. Only in rural New Jersey. That is so crazy," Patatie says in the video.
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Readington Police Chief Steve Rindock said the horses escaped from a property on River Avenue and were brought back home at 2:24 a.m.
"It took a little over an hour to get them corralled but they did make it home," said Rindock to Patch.
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Raritan Police Lt. Scott Nelson said Township Officers also came to help and can be seen in the video on the highway with the horses.
See the video courtesy of @katiebee3 below:
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