One horsepower Fiat

It may only be one horsepower, but this Fiat Uno certainly gave traffic cops a run for their money as it sped along the motorway with a foal on the back seat.

The driver had bought the 260 lbs foal at a livestock market near the Polish capital Warsaw and was driving 150 miles to his farm in the north of the country.



By the time police caught up with it driver Hieronim Kapuscinski had pulled over to a lay by when the car's engine conked out. Inside the car the pony stood waiting patiently to be fed while the driver's two pals - who'd been crammed into the front - checked that the rear seat was secure on the ramshackle roof rack.

Police fined the driver £50 for inappropriate use of a car and confiscated the horse until its owner can arrange for a proper livestock transporter to pick it up.