windseywoo
Well-Known Member
Hello all. Glad to see the rant has had some interesting debate and bought up some good ideas and how maybe we aren't even considered by people in authority.
How does someone who lives and works in a town, going to know how to go past a horse if its not even bought up in their driving lessons and during the theory test? The answer is they aren't going to know, so they either try to zoom past as quickly as possible or go so slow that they are then a danger to the drivers on the other side of the road. We do use the roads so maybe somehow we need to advertise the fact, like posters in DVLA centres perhaps or (I think already been tried) horse warnings in cyclist and car magazine's and vice versa. As previously said education is the key to everything and there is no point the BHS putting a picture of a horse dead in the road in horse and hound, your horse, horse and rider and the rest, we know what is going to happen. Its the other road users who need to see the picture and not just of the horse, but the damage it will do to their beloved car. No one else cares about us but they do care about their own vehicles, if they see the damage a 600kg horse could do to their car they'd be more considerate. We have a boy racer by us in his modified car who whenever he sees us slows right down and even turns his music off (we know he's coming we can hear him a mile away), not because he cares about us, but because of all the time and money he's put into his car. We thank him and off he speeds, a positive experience for us both.
How does someone who lives and works in a town, going to know how to go past a horse if its not even bought up in their driving lessons and during the theory test? The answer is they aren't going to know, so they either try to zoom past as quickly as possible or go so slow that they are then a danger to the drivers on the other side of the road. We do use the roads so maybe somehow we need to advertise the fact, like posters in DVLA centres perhaps or (I think already been tried) horse warnings in cyclist and car magazine's and vice versa. As previously said education is the key to everything and there is no point the BHS putting a picture of a horse dead in the road in horse and hound, your horse, horse and rider and the rest, we know what is going to happen. Its the other road users who need to see the picture and not just of the horse, but the damage it will do to their beloved car. No one else cares about us but they do care about their own vehicles, if they see the damage a 600kg horse could do to their car they'd be more considerate. We have a boy racer by us in his modified car who whenever he sees us slows right down and even turns his music off (we know he's coming we can hear him a mile away), not because he cares about us, but because of all the time and money he's put into his car. We thank him and off he speeds, a positive experience for us both.