{"id":793018,"date":"2026-07-10T15:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793018\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:21:24","slug":"horse-with-head-trapped-in-a-bridge-near-lytton-b-c-discovered-by-passing-truck-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793018\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse with head trapped in a bridge near Lytton, B.C., discovered by passing truck driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>If you think your day got off to a bad start, spare a thought for the horse found with its head stuck in a bridge near Lytton in B.C.&#8217;s Interior this week.<\/p>\n<p>Local truck driver Brian Hart had started his Tuesday morning shift and was driving along a seldom-used gravel road on his way into town when he happened upon the startling scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m heading down this one hill to my first bridge,\u201d he told CBC\u2019s Radio West.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I see this horse lying in the middle of the bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hart said hoof marks on the bridge and the horse\u2019s positioning led him to believe it had slipped on its way down the hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like it hit the concrete on the bridge, lost its footing and somehow got its head jammed under the timber,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>At first, Hart thought it might have been dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI looked over the edge [of the bridge] and that thing looked up at me, tongue hanging out, just exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it just gave me a look of, get me the hell out of here!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hart tried pulling the horse\u2019s mane to free it, but said it became agitated and started kicking.<\/p>\n<p>He was midway through attempting to tear off the bridge\u2019s beam with his truck&#8217;s crane attachment, when the horse finally managed to free itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt couldn&#8217;t even hold his head up. It just stood there for like ten minutes looking at me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A horse standing on a bridge near Lytton, B.C.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783696884_955_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>The truck driver who found the horse did not know how long it had been trapped. (Brian Hart)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally it caught its breath, and just walked away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hart described it as the strangest encounter of his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told the boss, this was not in my job description. They didn\u2019t train me for this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-793018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}