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That will be heartbroken pair of children.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Eight-year-old horse rider injured in ‘hit and run’

Devon and Cornwall Police charge a man after collision involving a van and a horse at Higher Treween on Sunday
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An eight-year-old horse rider has been injured, and her horse put down, after an alleged hit-and-run.

Christopher Rogers, 61, from Bolventor, near Launceston in Cornwall, has been charged with driving without due care, driving while disqualified, driving without insurance, failing to stop after a road accident, and criminal damage.

Devon and Cornwall Police said: “He has been released on bail and is due to appear before Bodmin magistrates’ court on Friday February 7.”

The force previously confirmed it had been called to reports of a collision involving a white Ford Transit van and a horse at Higher Treween, Altarnun, near Launceston, at about 2.20pm on Jan 12.

An eight-year-old girl who was riding the horse was injured and airlifted to hospital, but has since been discharged. A 12-year-old who was leading the horse was uninjured.

The force spokesman said that the horse “had to be humanely put to sleep by vets at the scene”.
 
NoodlesHalloween said:
I do think the driving offence punishments in this country need an overhaul. There appears to be no real deterrent to repeating offences, in this example he had been disqualified but still self entitled enough to take no heed at all to that punishment :(
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What you said. I mean what is the point of disqualification? The amount of drivers arrested for a traffic offence who are already disqualified is far too high. People around them must be aware their licence has been suspended and SHOULD in my view, report them before they cause accidents
 
Smitty is right.
There should be consequences for those who stood back and did nothing.

Who gave him access to the vehicle? If it was sold to him, what licence checks were in place?

I sold a car a couple of years ago and I made no checks at all on the driver. I sent the slip off with the details but do the DVLA do anything with it to check? Should there have been an online process where I could submit the drivers details and ID for confirmation.

We need to view vehicles as potential weapons and give sellers a duty to do some due diligence.
 
OrangeAndLemon said:
We need to view vehicles as potential weapons and give sellers a duty to do some due diligence.
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The same with hammers, screwdrivers, house bricks, planks?

In this case, the driver of the vehicle is entirely responsible for what happened.

If I sold a bottle of lemonade to a numpty who then used the bottle to club somebody to death, do you think that I should be responsible for that?
 
OrangeAndLemon said:
Smitty is right.
There should be consequences for those who stood back and did nothing.

Who gave him access to the vehicle? If it was sold to him, what licence checks were in place?

I sold a car a couple of years ago and I made no checks at all on the driver. I sent the slip off with the details but do the DVLA do anything with it to check? Should there have been an online process where I could submit the drivers details and ID for confirmation.

We need to view vehicles as potential weapons and give sellers a duty to do some due diligence.
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The problem with that is that buying a car is not necessarily for the exclusive use of the person buying it. We have 2 cars, one in my name and one in my other half's name, but we both drive both. It's also common for parents to add kids to the insurance so they can drive too.
 
OrangeAndLemon said:
Smitty is right.
There should be consequences for those who stood back and did nothing.

Who gave him access to the vehicle? If it was sold to him, what licence checks were in place?

I sold a car a couple of years ago and I made no checks at all on the driver. I sent the slip off with the details but do the DVLA do anything with it to check? Should there have been an online process where I could submit the drivers details and ID for confirmation.

We need to view vehicles as potential weapons and give sellers a duty to do some due diligence.
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The owner of a vehicle is different to the keeper or driver. There's no legal requirement to be a licence holder to buy a vehicle. You can perform a driver check, but you need the full driving licence number for that. It's normally carried out by the licence holder to prove they're clean (for work driving).

Agree that criminal damage describing the death of a horse is disgusting. It's time the horse and rider were considered as one entity i.e. causing injury by dangerous driving.
 
I did read a few months ago on a news site that there may be a new law coming to make 'pets' recognised as more than a 'possession' like a TV under the law due to the high number of dog thefts. It was unclear from the report if horses as 'pets' would be included in this new law.

It has been true for decades (my personal knowledge goes back to an arson in 1996) that at the moment under the law there is no difference in treatment for theft, damage, arson, death from a living animal to a car/TV (except for livestock worrying I think)

The new law was going to change that. Maybe someone with a bit of time could do a google about this proposed law and find out if anything has progressed....
 
This is awful. It occurred in my Force area (Devon & Cornwall).

Hoping that this driver gets a custodial sentence and stays banged-up for a decent amount of time. Hoping too that other prisoners who have kids on the outside, might give him a hard time for what he's done, just leaving two kids like that. Monster!
 
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