Three drivers, including one whose car overturned and skidded several hundred feet upside down, escaped injury Monday morning after hitting a horse in the southbound lanes of I-15 near Boun-ti-ful.

UHP troopers Jeff Rose and Stan Lochle reported the horse was struck by a semitrailer truck driven by Steve Davis, Magna, and a car driven by a California man, William Harris, about 4:30 a.m. Monday.Davis pulled his rig off the road and Harris went into the median, according to UHP. A third southbound car driven by Terri Gebert, Layton, hit the remains of the animal and flipped over, skidding along on its top for several hundred feet, the troopers reported.

All three drivers were wearing seat belts, and the air bags in the two cars inflated, which apparently protected the drivers from serious injury, the troopers said.

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The owner of the horse, identified by UHP as Reid Acord, West Bountiful, was issued a citation for allowing livestock to roam, the troopers reported.

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