The driver is expelled and the horses just keep running.
This is a great demonstration of what TO do when something like this happens. The second team is pulled safely off to one side...people are looking for opportunities to stop the runaways, but they don't dogpile them (which could easily have got somebody killed), they don't chase them (which would have made them keep running longer). They make several attempts to head them off, without getting in their way.
It does take them a long time to stop, though, and eventually the second driver uses his team and wagon to come up next to them and tries to get the lines that way. He at least manages to herd them away from the people on the ground.
Finally, a frustrated idiot tries to jump into the moving wagon and faceplants...and eventually a second guy gets on board and gets the lines.
I don't think I've ever seen a runaway last a full five minutes - the team must have been setting each other off.
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