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Police couldn't believe it when a horse on the loose on one of Cardiff's busiest roads boarded a bus.

The animal was running around on the A48 Eastern Avenue when it got on a Cardiff Bus heading to the University Hospital of Wales.

Luckily, South Wales Police saw the funny side and shared the story on social media along with a picture of the horse on board the bus.

In a Twitter post, they said: "A loose horse on the 'mane' A48 Eastern Ave decided it wanted to 'stirrup' a little trouble but in doing so it risked falling 'foal' of the law.

"It then decided to alight an Cardiff Bus which was on it's way to the Heath Hostable! Road now re open."

It has since emerged that the horse was hit by two cars on one van during the incident.

There was traffic in both directions on the busy Cardiff road after a number of horses escaped onto the carriageway between A4161 Southern Way and A4232 Pontprennau.

One motorist in the area at the time told BBC: "We got close to the horse, and a Cardiff Bus had stopped. The police arrived and we were all a bit flummoxed about about to do, to be honest.

"So the Cardiff Bus driver said, 'Why don't we just put it on the bus?', and I couldn't really see any other option. We popped the accessibility ramps down on the bus and I just trotted the horse on the bus and he seemed quite happy."

South Wales Police said the horse was collected by its owners at around 8pm after being contacted by the local horse warden.

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