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The horse crashed into a wall and the couple fell out, but Oreo kept on galloping until it ran into a town car.

Last year, three carriage horses collapsed in the streets of Manhattan within six weeks, two of them dying. The incidents sparked outrage from organizations NYCLASS and PETA, as well as their celeb supporters like Lea Michele, Kristin Chenoweth, Pamela Anderson, Chelsea Handler andAnjelica Huston who have called for a ban of the city’s horse-drawn carriages.

(CBS News) NEW YORK - A horse-drawn carriage and a vehicle collided near Midtown Manhattan Thursday afternoon, sending two people to the hospital, CBS station WCBS-TV reports. All of it started after the animal got spooked by a car horn and took off.

An attention-whorse named Oreo went buckwild in Manhattan yesterday, tearing through traffic and injuring three people.

A runaway carriage horse wreaked havoc during the start of rush hour Thursday afternoon after breaking free and running off before hitting a parked car near Columbus Circle.

A motorist (one witness says it was a limo driver) struck a carriage horse this afternoon near Columbus Circle, knocking over the carriage and sending the horse fleeing through the streets. The horse has since been secured, and we'll update as more information becomes available.

A carriage horse has been taken out of service after it gave two tourists a wild ride Thursday.

NEW YORK — An incident with a carriage horse has sent the animal bolting away from its carriage on the streets of midtown Manhattan.

A runaway carriage horse carrying a terrified tourist couple near Central Park today crashed into a parked van and a moving car – and was finally corralled several blocks away, witnesses said.