Charlottetown, The Guardian: Columns | P.E.I. harness driver escapes death twice.
With his recovery from a horrific accident at Woodbine Raceway on March 2 well underway, details are now coming out about how 28-year-old Charlottetown native Robert Shepherd ducked death twice in a week.
Shepherd was involved in an eight-horse accident while driving a 45-1 longshot in the final of the Ontario Boys Series, a chain-reaction collision which saw him hurtled off the sulky to land hard on the track, breaking his left leg in two places.
Veteran driver Rick Zeron, who escaped serious injury, described the mishap as one of the worst he has ever seen.
“It was a miracle that none of the drivers or horses were killed,” said Zeron.
