anyone hear of a horse & rider killed a few weeks ago?

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hit by a lorry in england?????

 

[rrose]

omg no!!

 

[Peaches]

Yes it was in Oxfordshire & I knew her. She was out hacking with her daughter, horse spooked & she was thrown into the path of the lorry. Her poor daughter had to crawl under the lorry to get her mum's mobile phone out to call the ambulance (mind boggles what the lorry driver was doing at this point)

 

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was it in the papers at all?

 

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the horse died too, that poor womans horse lived

sorry to hear this xxxx

 

[foraday]

here is the link to it

very sad

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/display.var.902490.0.0.php

 

[fizz-tally]

the one i was told of both horse & rider died, her name was hannah, horse called max

 

[GTs]

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(mind boggles what the lorry driver was doing at this point)

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I would not be so hard on the truck driver - working in A&E I have seen these guys who have knocked over pedistrians come in the psychiatry ward, the state they are in is absolutely shocking. I feel so sorry for them, they are as much a victim of the accident as the injured party (of course assuming negligence/drunk driving/etc is not a factor).

 

[guisbrogal]

How dreadfully sad for all involved.

I have to agree Iain that the driver will no doubt suffer dreadfully for the rest of his life. After all if it is, as it reads, that she was thrown off in front of him he would have no chance to avoid her.

An appalling tragedy and my heart goes out to all involved

 

[rrose]

did the horse die? sorry to ask but the news article said that the horse was unhurt nor did it say anything about her riding with anyone else?!

 

[goeslikestink]

sad very sad

 

[hairycob]

Friends uncle's lorry killed a pedestrian who collapsed & fell under the wheels of his lorry - only doing 20mph at the time & nothing he could do. That was 30 years ago & he has not been able to face driving even a car since. I should imagine this driver was in a real state.

 

[eohippus]

Yes the driver was in total shock and inconsolable.
sad and very tragic accident.
Regards
Dawn

 

[equibabe20]

I read about that it was in the Bucks Free Press. It was a sewage lorry she was hit by. Poor daughter having to climb underneath to get the phone :9

 

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the one i am trying to find out about is not that one, both horse & rider were killed begining of september

 

[Gingernags]

There was one where a young-ish lass - either late teens/early 20's was found, plus the horse, both dead. They *think* that the horse collapsed on her, which killed her, and it staggered up again before collapsing and dying a short distance away.

Originally they thought maybe they had been hit by a car but I think that was rapidly ruled out.

Mind you that might have been a few weeks earlier.

Sorry if its no help, its the only one I can remember hearing about.