A 60-year-old man died after his car collided with a horse that was part of a large herd that fled from a farm near Newmarket on Friday morning.

York Regional Police (YRP) officers responded to reports of a single-car rollover in the area of Davis Drive West and Keele Street in the town of King at about 2:45 a.m. When officers arrived at the scene, they learned that several horses from a nearby farm had fled onto Davis Drive, initially adding that between 20 to 30 horses were loose in the area.

The police also reported that a gray Toyota Corolla collided with a horse on the road and then hit a ditch, causing the driver to be ejected from the vehicle, who was later declared dead at the scene. He was a 60-year-old man from Newmarket.

"A deceased horse was found at the scene," the police said in a press statement on Friday afternoon, adding that the remaining loose horses were gathered and returned to the farm. It is also unknown how the horses escaped from the farm. Davis Drive is expected to be closed between Keele Street and Dufferin Street for some time while police investigate.

In a video sent to CP24, dozens of horses were seen roaming in a residential neighborhood near the scene. "When I was watching it, I thought I was dreaming," said a resident, Mark Escobar, to CP24.com. Escobar lives on Sweetwater Crescent, near Davis Drive and Bathurst Street, and has cameras installed around his property, stating that he woke up to alerts on his phone from his camera around 2:45 a.m., and was stunned by what he saw on the footage.