Gardaí are investigating a road collision involving a sulky and a number of vehicles in Waterford City.
The sulky is believed to have struck four other vehicles, two of which were parked, on the Ballytruckle Road at approximately at 11:45am.
No one was injured during the incident and the horse involved was taken by Waterford Animal Welfare.
No arrests were made and inquiries are ongoing.
Sinn Féin Councillor John Hearne says Waterford Council has written to the Transport Minister to call for legislation to ban sulky racing on public roads:
"Time and time again we've said it's absolutely deadly dangerous that a half tonne animal is left out on the same road as any cars. If a horse spooks and gets afraid, it will cause a casualty some time and it has caused fatalities in the past. We need to regulate it; we need to get it off the roads. It's cruel to the horses, it's dangerous to the people on the back of the horses, if they had hit a civilian you could be talking about a death."
