Was he after more horsepower? Brazilian motorist caught driving down motorway in tiny two-door car with a stallion poking its head out of the passenger window
The bizarre scene was captured on video in Fortaleza on
Thursday by an astonished driver who first thought the animal was a very
large Great Dane. The animal was being driven in a run-down two-door
Ford Del Rey, manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in Brazil between
1981 and 1991. A passer-by said the horse didn't seem to be enjoying the
drive.
Was he after more horsepower? Brazilian motorist caught driving down motorway in tiny two-door car with a stallion poking its head out of the passenger window
- Bizarre scene was captured on video in the city of Fortaleza on Thursday
- Driver initially thought the animal sitting in the back seat was Great Dane
Motorists
driving along a busy highway in Brazil were shocked to see a horse
being ferried in a two-door car with its head poking out of the window.
The
bizarre scene was captured on video in Fortaleza on Thursday by an
astonished driver who first thought the animal was a very large Great
Dane.
'I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,' said Evi Braga. 'The horse was sitting on the backseat of the car as if it was a dog.
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Bizarre: The horse was seen peering out of the window of a car in Fortaleza in the north west of Brazil
'It
scared me when I realised it was a horse. It looked fully grown and
seemed to be enjoying the drive. It pushed its head out of the
passenger’s front car window and didn’t look stressed at being squashed
into such a small space.
'I drove alongside the vehicle and the driver didn’t even glance over at me to acknowledge he was doing anything wrong.
'The
incredible thing was I couldn’t figure out how the owner got the horse
into the car in the first place,' she added in amazement.
The
animal was being driven in a run-down two-door Ford Del Rey,
manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in Brazil between 1981 and 1991.
According
to Brazil’s Federal Highway Police animals should be transported in a
box or strapped in with a car seatbelt - something which would have been
impossible to do with the horse.
Braga
added: 'It was at least 30 degrees on Thursday so it must have been
really hot and smelly inside the vehicle. I wanted to laugh but I also
felt more sorry for the horse.'
Shocked: The driver of the other car initially thought the animal was a Great Dane
Passenger: The horse appeared to stick its head out of the window as the other car approached
There is no legislation in Brazil banning motorists from carrying an array of animals in their vehicles.
A
traffic cop said: 'The Brazilian Traffic Code states that if the driver
is caught with animals on the seat in the front of the car, or between
their arms or legs they face four penalty points on their licence and a
fine of £25.
He
added: 'Besides putting their own life at risk they endanger the lives
of others on the road. Unfortunately we didn’t catch this incident on
our motorway cameras, if we had the offender would have been stopped
immediately.'
He
admitted however, that over the years officers have logged all types of
creatures being carried in domestic vehicles including sheep, goats,
birds and snakes.
Normal: There was nothing unusual about the vehicle as the other car approached
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