BBC News - Man Killed by Horse in Trailer

Awful.

Sounds like the partition came down? Is that an easy thing to do? Most of ours are travelled without, large broodies with, but the broodies don't hold back leaning on them and are farily solid in my experience. Worrying whether it was an extreme case or horse breaking it, or whether there's some fault with it or something to check more thoroughly when putting in?
 
Sound awful. It's terrible how quickly these accidents can happen - the horse must have been really panicking and I guess you just naturally try and help and it doesn't cross your mind to protect yourself and put a hat on. So sad :(
 
Have been in a trailer with a friend whilst travelling a 3 year old jenny (stupid yes I know!) and she broke the partition after breaking free. Friend and I had to hang on the the jenny to stop her trying to turn round as we thought she might have tried to jump out over the back ramp.

***the jenny had never travelled before and we had to move her and the two ponies immediately due to loss of grazing so didn't have time to do trailer/traveling practice. She was sedated but fought it when we moved off hence the reason we were in the back with her and yes we both know that traveling in a trailer with a nervous mule/horse/pony is not a brilliant idea but we were wearing hard hats.***
 
PandorasJar said:
Awful.

Sounds like the partition came down? Is that an easy thing to do?
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A fellow livery had her partition fall down a couple of months ago. It turned out to be a fault with the trailer, which was only a couple of years old and had a thorough "trailer MOT" a few weeks before. The bottom of the partition came up under one pony's belly and almost lifted her off the ground, with the rest lying across the other pony's back.

Luckily the two ponies she had in there were both old, experienced travellers (20yrs+ and competed all their lives) and neither panicked. She and the YM (her passenger) managed to extract them with no serious injuries to horses or people. Amazingly, both loaded onto a replacement trailer to go home without any fuss! Dread to think what would have happened with one of her young warmbloods in the back.
 
laura_nash said:
A fellow livery had her partition fall down a couple of months ago. It turned out to be a fault with the trailer, which was only a couple of years old and had a thorough "trailer MOT" a few weeks before. The bottom of the partition came up under one pony's belly and almost lifted her off the ground, with the rest lying across the other pony's back.

Luckily the two ponies she had in there were both old, experienced travellers (20yrs+ and competed all their lives) and neither panicked. She and the YM (her passenger) managed to extract them with no serious injuries to horses or people. Amazingly, both loaded onto a replacement trailer to go home without any fuss! Dread to think what would have happened with one of her young warmbloods in the back.
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Jesus. Glad I travel most alone and without partition, and partition is more often off than on, so always checked. But will definitely check more thoroughly now. Didn't realise how common it was :/
 
My mare broke the partitions in my 505 struggling then she went down and the only thing holding the partition up was the back bars. Wasn't a pleasant sight to witness!!

Poor family they must be devestated :(
 
How terrible, condolences to the family.
I had a partition fall on my mare in a lorry. Not the whole thing, the horse next to her broke the wooden filling, so it wasn't the whole metal frame. Being a very chilled sort anyway, she was calmly munching hay when we opened the ramp, totally unconcerned. But it does make you think how easily done it is.
 
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