An eventful hack

A sunny day today and I took Remy out for a hack.
It was quite eventful.
First, our neighbours were blocking the track with the tractor and log splitter. It was quite noisy, and they were hiding behind the tractor and suddenly popped their heads out.to say hello.  Remy handled it brilliantly and we managed to squeeze past without a problem. Then, we went through our little shortcut to find that the field on the other side had been ploughed and while we could get round the edge, it was still quite deep and soft. He handled that too, making his way carefully to the track.
After that, we settled onto the nice quiet grassy track, and he started to walk out nicely. We took a new (to him) track, and he was happy to go. There's no way home from this track, so we had to turn around at some point, and when we did, he was calm and wasn't wanting to rush home.
Heading home, I gave him a long rein and he stretched out into a lovely ground covering walk. We were 20 minutes from home, just reaching the top of an uphill, bendy track, and just approaching the last bend, when Remy spied a parked car, partially hidden. In a split second, he had stopped dead, tried to turn, lost his footing, and before I knew it, we were both on the ground. I'd come straight off the back, complete with stirrups. I grabbed hold of the reins as he got up, and stood quietly while he huffed and snorted at my side. I had to wait quietly for a minute or two before he was calm enough to lead round the bend towards the car, and even then he was still jumpy, but after a few moments I led him forward to sniff and touch the car with his nose, after which he was much calmer.
Another minute or two and he was calm enough for me to stand him next to a nearby log. I got back on and we continued on home. He was on his toes, but calm enough, and we had a lovely long uphill trot. I gave him the rein and let him really stretch and use himself. He felt fine, and seemed not to have hurt himself.
It's disconcerting how quickly things can happen, and he'd given us both a shock, but the upside of it was that he'd stood with me, and listened to me as I tried to calm him,even though he was really scared, and best of all was how calm he was once we'd continued on our way home.
Hopefully no harm done.
I hope it doesn't happen again!!