Carriage Horse Drivers are not Required to Report Accidents

The trade also likes to claim that "only 3 horses have died in traffic accidents in 30 years."  This is deceitful and a lie of omission   because it does not include all the many horses who have died from  dropping dead on the street like Charlie; spooking and running into a tree like Smoothie; or Clancy who died in the stable from unknown causes.  We can account for 23 carriage horse deaths in 33 years - and those are just the ones we know