Couldn't believe it!!!!

[Sharonr]

You know how it is when you are hacking on the roads, you sometimes get people that slow right down to pass you safely and sometimes get other people that carry on at the same speed regardless.

However, what happened to me today was beyond belief!!

Saw a landrover and trailer coming down the road but wasn't overly worried as thought, "it's horsey folk, they'll know to slow down". God was I wrong !!!!

They carried on at full speed with a rattling trailer behind them and my horse spooked big time. I still don't know how we didn't end up in a serious accident. The trailer almost brushed my shoulder as my horse spun round frightened out of her wits. Just thought, oh my god, this is it!!

I still can't believe that my horse didn't lose her ass either cos she managed to spin round in the road, which is pretty narrow, just as the trailer was passing us.

No excuses for it, these people should have known better. Just glad that nothing serious came of it. Will be giving them a piece of my mind if I ever see them again!!

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Glad you are both ok - we had a simialr thing happen to us the other week

. The worse thing about that was that the driver is a tw@t from our yard whose horse is terrified of anything bigger than Noddy's car!!

Needless to say he did get the full benefit of a large and colourful vocabulary....

 

[myhorsefred]

Gosh!

I had a near accident on the road today (see my earlier post) and it makes you think how quick things can happen doesn't it?

I've had a van and trailer come flying past before and it is very scary. People are thick, aren't they?

 

[Sharonr]

It does make you think just how dangerous it can be on the roads.

I think with most people it is just ignorance. They treat a horse rider on the roads the same as a bike rider. But for it to be other horse owners doing it, there is no excuse whatsoever.

They've probably got a bl**dy sticker on the back of their car saying, "Please slow down for horses".

 

[Booboos]

Glad you are OK!!! What a weird thing for a horse owner to do! I have to say I would have expected someone in a horsebox/with a trailer to be extra careful.

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

You would think they would be more considerate - but no came past us doing at least 50 with his horse in the trailer on a single track country lane!!

When told he was going too fast his reaction was 'I wasn't going fast for me...'

.....f*ckwit!! No wonder his horse dumped him on his head.....

 

[jesterfaerie]

I am so glad to hear you are both ok, unfortunatly I have come to not always trust horsey people on the roads either as some of them maybe horsey but do not give two hoots about other horses/riders other than themselves

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Do you have any idea if they are local or not?

 

[diggerbez]

i had a similar incident with a bitch from yard up the road a couple of years back. it was literally a couple of days after i'd actually been run into by a stupid cow in a ford focus so i was rather nervous heading off through the village. saw car and trailer careering towards us so i waved at her to slow down. she stopped and wound her window down and told me to Fcuk off!!

 

[merlinsquest]

I was crossing a fast stretch of road yesterday when a boy racer in a souped up hatchback with a stripe over the bonnet etc.... decided to overtake the cars which were slowing slightly (not stopping though

) as they could see us at the roadside.

How he didnt have a head on with the oncomming trafic I will never know.

I cant imagine what the horses would have done in this scenario

As it was he screamed past with everyone honking thier horns.... and our horses just pricked their ears and jumped a bit

Idiots

 

[Sharonr]

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I am so glad to hear you are both ok, unfortunatly I have come to not always trust horsey people on the roads either as some of them maybe horsey but do not give two hoots about other horses/riders other than themselves

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Do you have any idea if they are local or not?

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Think they must be local as couple of yards are situated up the top of the road that they came flying down!!

I certainly won't forget the colour of the trailer cos it was so close to my shoulder and some blonde bit was in the passenger seat! LOL !!

 

[YorksG]

I once ended up in a ditch on a track to a local show because of an idiot driving a range rover and trailer!

I was leading the old Appy to ensure she arrived cool. He stopped the car, I thanked him and the fool set off as we were level with the front of his trailer. The mare leaped sideways, we both went in the ditch, with the mare standing on my legs! I saw her front shoes pass in front of my face. I didn't show her that day, walked her home and then could not walk for the next three days, having legs that were black from hip to ankle

 

[tasel]

I would have expected more from horsey people. but I guess sometimes, people just are selfish and do not think of others (and there are plenty of those in the horsey world).

However, I did figure out how non-horsey people think when meeting my OH. It wasn't until I had my own horse that he figured out how spooky they can be. He told me how 10 years ago, he would be out mountain biking and zoom past horse & rider who would give him a right telling-off... and he never knew why they were making such a fuss... until I left him to deal with my horse 10 years later.