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Photograph caption dated April 3, 1963 reads, "Burbank horse safe after freeway bout. Panicked animal ran wild, caused three-car crash." This horse ran onto the Ventura Freeway in Burbank, causing a three-car smashup that sent a 21-year-old bank teller, Eugene Zipper, to the hospital in fair condition. The horse was being ridden by its owner, Marlene Hartley, 20, when the brown mare fell backwards while trying to climb up a steep hill in Griffith Park near the freeway. The animal threw the young woman and bolted, ran up the Forest Lawn Drive on-ramp, and onto the freeway. It was helped to safety by Los Angeles motorcycle officer A. S. Peckham, but not before it was struck by a car driven by John Fahey, 63. The horse was taken to its stable at 1800 Riverside Drive, where a veterinarian reported it in good condition despite a cut right flank.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Horses--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Traffic accidents--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Stables--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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