Fairly wonderful that a automotive flipped at highway speeds and nobody was significantly damage. Are any charges pending against the horse owner? I don't want to cast aspersions with out proof, so I will not name the enterprise, but it surely appears pretty obvious a guess that the horses were at a sure ranch and escaped. If that's the case, the house owners likely board them there and the responsibility belongs with the ranch. Might not be the owner's/homeowners' fault. Yes, nearly all of horses in the realm are boarded, not stabled on horse proprietor property. Pretty terrible time for those drivers, although. This is terrible, & it may've been even worse. The property on each sides belongs to Stanford U. PVEC is a bunch of sub-barns and there's at the least one if no more extra operations farther up Ansel Lane. 280 the horses would have come from. May you think about that somebody supposed their horses to be killed on the freeway? Too bad it took the CHP an hour to forged the SIG alert - it appears they did not react in time to prevent persevering with tragedy? Just for the report they didn't come from PVTC! So solid all the aspersions you want! I didn't "blame" anybody, nor did I "imagine" somebody wished hurt, note my use of the word "escape". I nonetheless doubt that would be the case. I was referring to @amazing that thought the owners can be liable. As for my guess, after wanting at the map, I'm glad I did not say the name, the one I used to be guessing is on the south side of 280, with the lengthy lease. You'd need more than a handful of fingers to rely. My error stems from being a north peninsula gal, I still consider 280 as north/south! The information reported this morning that they bought loose from Webb Ranch. I'm extra aware of the south side stables; I don't know which is the obvious (ie.. Somebody thought they had latched a gate, but hadn't. The SJ Mercury Information reviews that they wandered a mile from the corral where a gate was left unfastened. Mea culpa -- I was reacting defensively in protection of the ranch I rode at as a kid (WR) which is on the "south" facet of 280. From what I know, all their horses are also on the opposite aspect of the creek from the 280 north on- ramp. There are going to be a variety of sad kids as well as us grownup horse lovers. I am feeling very unhealthy for the ranch and all the children who rode those horses in lessons. I am not feeling as bad for the ranch house owners & children who rode the horses as I'm feeling for the horses themselves & the poor people who hit them. Glad no human lives have been misplaced and very unhappy for the loss of the horses. Sorry for my reactivity in earlier publish. Shocked anybody would blame the horse house owners. Hazards like deer (and, in the past, horses and cattle and even pedestrians and stalled vehicles) appear on 280. I attempt to not drive in the shoulder lane, especially at night, to offer myself more room to maneuver ought to a deer certain into the roadway. Many cheap bronze statues folks use 280 as a speedway! What are they going to do if they hit a deer - sue the deer? I'm a long time Woodside and Portola Valley Resident. For the previous 15 years I have had cause to be on the 280 between the hours of 4:30-6:30am and i can tell you not many maintain the speed restrict. Velocity and over driving the attain of headlights are probably culprits, so please do not blame the poor horses and their owners. It's as though drivers suppose that few drivers on the freeway make it the Autobahn! They should treat it as if they are driving in icy circumstances - Decelerate. The speed limit is about because the protected pace beneath supreme situations, which includes daylight, something less than superb calls for slower speeds. Perhaps if the CHP would spend extra time within the early hours monitoring traffic we might have less gridlock that begins with wildlife (or comparatively recently domesticated animals) being hit and killed.