York Regional Police (YRP) officers responded to reports of a vehicle rollover in the area of ​​Davis Drive West and Keele Street in the Township of King around 2:45 am.
When officers arrived on the scene, they learned that several horses from a nearby farm had escaped onto Davis Drive.  Police initially said 20 to 30 horses were loose in the area.
A gray Toyota Corolla reportedly hit a horse in the road and then hit a culvert, causing the driver to be ejected from the vehicle, police said.

The driver, a 60-year-old man from Newmarket, was pronounced dead at the scene. “A horse was found dead at the scene. The remaining horses that were loose were collected and returned to the farm,” police said in a news release Friday afternoon. A herd of horses is seen roaming a residential area near the scene of a serious vehicle rollover in Newmarket on November 11, 2022. Unknown how the horses escaped from the farm. The farm was also not identified by police. Davis Drive is expected to be closed between Keele Street and Dufferin Street for some time as police investigate. In a video sent to CP24, dozens of the horses can be seen walking through a residential neighborhood near the crash site. “When I was watching it, I thought I was dreaming,” resident Mark Escobar told CP24.com. Escobar lives on Sweetwater Crescent, near Davis Drive and Bathurst Street, and has cameras set up around his property. He said he woke up to alerts on his phone from his camera around 2:45 a.m. and was horrified by what he saw in the video. “The (horses) got too close, I guess, the car or one was getting too close to the front door, so the camera went off because usually if it’s just a random person walking down the sidewalk, we usually don’t get alerted, but I guess it was big, it was huge. Like these things were huge,” he said. The scene of an accident in Newmarket, Ont. which saw dozens of horses freed on November 11, 2022 can be seen here. Escobar added that the horses left their mark during their journey through his neighborhood. “There was a pile of it (horse droppings), like it was all over people’s streets. It was on the sidewalk, in the streets.” He said many of the droppings have since been cleaned up. Investigators are asking any witnesses who have not yet spoken to police or anyone who may have dash cam video of the crash to contact them at 1-866-876-5423, ext. 7704 or to call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS or online.