Car driver VS Young Horse

OWLIE185 said:
I am sorry to hear of this incident.

Unfortunately there are some preetty nasty people driving cars (who should not be) and for the safety of all road users we need to get them off the roads.

Could I ask you to report this incident on the www.horseaccidents.co.uk giving a detailed description of the incident and as much as you remember of a description of the car and driver and details of the location of were it occured including post code.

Also report it to your local police station and ask for an incident number.
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Thanks for the link i have completed the form and left a message with our local CSO

I didnt know the BHS had a service for reporting incidents :)
 
If it was me i'd maybe sit by side of road and see if the idiot passes again..then get his reg number.

Then see if you know any friendly police people and get his address..if its local maybe a note on the screen..letting him know you know where he lives etc.
 
How awful. There are too many pompous, arrogant drivers on the roads.

Last summer I was riding in a group of 4, on a straight country road when a classic style car approached us. It was making the most horrendous sound and the horse at the front of our ride began to back off and swung his hind out into the road. Driver continued at us without slowing, ploughed into the horse (with rider onboard) sending him up and over the car. Needless to say horse was destroyed at the scene with 3 broken legs. By some miracle I will never understand, the rider only had concussion and whiplash.

Driver drove straight off and was only caught as he is a local man, and the only one in the area who owns such a car.

Case is going to trial on March 13th and hopefully the consequences will be severe, he still shows no remorse for his actions.

Have to say 90% of the people I meet on the road are excellent. I've even had people stop and compliment me on my Hi-Viz as it greatly helps them as well as us.

Some people just don't understand the consequences of their actions unfortunately.
 
Charlie Bucket said:
How awful. There are too many pompous, arrogant drivers on the roads.

Last summer I was riding in a group of 4, on a straight country road when a classic style car approached us. It was making the most horrendous sound and the horse at the front of our ride began to back off and swung his hind out into the road. Driver continued at us without slowing, ploughed into the horse (with rider onboard) sending him up and over the car. Needless to say horse was destroyed at the scene with 3 broken legs. By some miracle I will never understand, the rider only had concussion and whiplash.

Driver drove straight off and was only caught as he is a local man, and the only one in the area who owns such a car.

Case is going to trial on March 13th and hopefully the consequences will be severe, he still shows no remorse for his actions.

Have to say 90% of the people I meet on the road are excellent. I've even had people stop and compliment me on my Hi-Viz as it greatly helps them as well as us.

Some people just don't understand the consequences of their actions unfortunately.
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I hope that the courts throw the book at this total idiot and that the owner of the horse then instructs her solicitor to take civil action against him to recover the loss of her beloved horse and the emotional effect it has had on her and her family.
 
So glad your horse is ok, he's very handsome.

I realise the driver was a totally intolerant idiot, but felt it might be worth asking whether he actually saw you in time ?

Driving down our farm track very slowly, liveries would often ride or lead after dusk and although they wore Hi Viz, I simply couldn't see them until I was nearly on top of them.

I lead along a country lane from field to yard and find using a torch with the Hi Viz gives traffic a better chance of seeing us.
 
OWLIE185 said:
I hope that the courts throw the book at this total idiot and that the owner of the horse then instructs her solicitor to take civil action against him to recover the loss of her beloved horse and the emotional effect it has had on her and her family.
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Thank you - I will be sure to write a full HHO report after the verdict.
 
The driver was clearly an idiot. One thing a fellow livery did when taking her young hi-vized up to the eyeballs warmblood out on the roads was attach L plates to the front & back of her hi-viz and to his chest & tail. She said that drivers seemed to understand the 'L plates' & always gave them wide berth.
 
trefnantblackknight said:
I didnt know the BHS had a service for reporting incidents :)
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O dear this is soo worrying, I mean the (near) accidents that everyone is recalling. I can't believe the attitude some drivers have towards horse riders!:eek:
Does anyone know if a crime has been committed here - and the other stories too, couldn't they be done for driving without due care - or dangerous driving surely??:confused:

Think the BHS need to publicise the accident reporting site more. The police are not obliged to record accidents which don't include injuries to humans so if your horse is injured, the BHS can't collect those statistics to use when they are campaigning for us about safer off road routes.

Please Please, all those that have recalled a near miss here, please go to the web site and record it- and report these incidents to the police. Not only could they catch him if he does it again, he or she might have just done it to someone else before they encounter you:eek:
I used to try to keep my phone ready to record my voice when I rode out so I had a record of registration numbers.
 
It drives me insane the amount of idiots you get on the road. I just hold onto the fact that for all the idiots on the road there are a lot more considerate drivers.

Tonight I had a car try and overtake us at a junction, only to realise he wouldn't make it. Instead of sitting at the junction with his foot on the break and putting his handbreak on, he spent the whole time trying to keep the bite, revving unnecessarily and causing stress. Only a few minutes later another car tried overtaking when there was noooo room whatsoever. Then I had a car leave such little space between the bonnet and the back legs that you couldn't have walked between the gap. You can have the best behaved horse in the world, but it can only take 1 thing to spook it. Some car drivers seem intent on getting to where they need to be regardless of the safety of others. But they'd be the first to complain if the horse damaged their car.
 
Inconsiderate and dangerous drivers are absolute b******'s when it comes to horses on roads! :mad:

I had a similar experience with my older horse, I always go out dripping in reflective a there is no way you could miss me, anyway I was hacking down a quiet lane and a woman in an estate car was speeding along the lane, she could clearly see me but was not slowing down, my poor horse at this point was getting quiet stressed, I was signalling slow down she wasn't listening to my signals at all, she got so close that when she actually stopped my horse reared up and nearly ended up through her windscreen we missed it by cms, I was so so angry and she continued to speed off once I was out of the way :mad: :mad:

People just don't understand or respect horses on the road and that we can only control and calm them to a certain extent, especially when you have speeding cars or idiots on bikes coming past you and thinking its ok!
 
horserider said:
So glad your horse is ok, he's very handsome.

I realise the driver was a totally intolerant idiot, but felt it might be worth asking whether he actually saw you in time ?

Driving down our farm track very slowly, liveries would often ride or lead after dusk and although they wore Hi Viz, I simply couldn't see them until I was nearly on top of them.

I lead along a country lane from field to yard and find using a torch with the Hi Viz gives traffic a better chance of seeing us.
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Thank you,

There was a good 50yards before he reached us and it was mid afternoon, so i'm pretty sure he saw us :( :) I have had that before thou coming round a bend when the sun is low and you don't see the pony until your nearly up its bottom! :D also when the road is wetand the sun glares off it its bad to see anything but it was a lively dry cloudy day. i am seriously considering a head cam looking on Ebay £35 - £50 quite resonable :)
 
lme said:
The driver was clearly an idiot. One thing a fellow livery did when taking her young hi-vized up to the eyeballs warmblood out on the roads was attach L plates to the front & back of her hi-viz and to his chest & tail. She said that drivers seemed to understand the 'L plates' & always gave them wide berth.
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I've seen a lady out long reining her youngster with 'L Plates ' and thought it was a good idea but while i was waiting in a pull in for her to comepast a nuttjob in a small van came zooming up behind her - at least 60mph - and went past at the same speed, when she went passed me i told her i had his number plate and the police payed him a nice little visit :D i think this was only last year


But i think they work better than 'caution young horse' tabards :D
 
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