Do some people not care for their own safety?

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To get to work I have to come up a narrow lane. The lane is full of blind bends, only a cars width wide (so you have to use passing places), though that really doesn't stop the average car from doing excess speeds (and on occasion I have to include myself in that when I have been running late).
Come up the lane late this afternoon to find a total novice, on a horse, swerving all over the lane. Rider has no control over the animal, who just seemed to want to stuff his face on passing fauna whatever side of the road that may be on......
In order to turn the horse around, the rider has to eventually get off as all efforts to use the reins have failed. All this done in front of peers who really ought to know better, and cars who are now being held up.
Neither horse or rider are in possession of a single stitch of hi-vis. Rider in fact is pretty much clothed top to toe in black/dark clothing.....
Gobsmacked....totally gobsmacked.
 
Hmm ,my last horse was partial to fauna, generaly me. I suspect you meean Flora. But yes High vis is the way to go. Had a careful considerate driver appologise to me today in broad daylight that he couldnt see me for the sunlight. Made me think!!:o
 
LOL yes FLORA not fauna......
But either way, the point is, someone who cannot control a horse adequately should not be on a road, and certainly not without hi-vis!
 
Well joeanne,if nothing else ,I am going to wear more high vis ,even in broad daylight, and thank you for reminding me.(slapped wrist for mike)
 
Rider will probably be on here later complaining that she bought the horse yesterday and took it out for a hack today and it did not behave as it had when she rode it at the previous owners yard and asking if there is something wrong with the horse and should she return it.
 
Yes the rider was being a dimwit but i have to say this and may not be popular if you are on a single track road where you are likely to meet livestock cars should be driving slowly and carefully. What if there was a loose horse either rider fallen off or out of a field i have to ride up a single road and always make myself visible move to let drivers past and wait in gateways and thank them.
But i have to say while having to take green horses out lots of them think they are doing a favour to slow down from 60 to 30 this is to fast if the horse reacts i have now taken to plonking myself in the middle of the road with the drivers i know when on a clear bit of road and it is safe for me to do so to force them to slow down.
Yes we should be aware of drivers and act accordingly but i really feel if you want to drive fast go on a motorway no one is in that much of a hurry i never drive fast on these kind of roads with blind bends i could never forgive myself if i killed or injured a horses or rider or anything just for the sake of a few minutes yes the person you met was a numnut but i was quite shocked to hear as a rider you speed on this road i am sure you would be devestated if you hit a horse.
I am sure 99 times out of 100 there is no valid reason for any driver to be speeding about these types of roads, i am sure you have guessed it is my pet hate and have known somone lose a horse in this way chavvy idiot riders is also but ill leave that for another day.:o
I am going to go and hide behind the sofa now.
 
Shes lucky that it wasnt a crazy speeding driver coming towards her!!! The road sounds like the one that we use for hacking, lots of blind corners to so you really have to have your wits about you!! I was hacking alone one day in the summer and some dim wit had his 4x4 parked in the middle of the very narrow road with the driver door wide open, standing talking at the side of the road :eek: I stopped and asked him if he could move his car as my horse isnt the best at hacking and there was just enough room to get through between the car door and bush!! He said no sure just go on pass *look of horror on my face* ... so i kicked on, horse spooked spun round and kindly closed the car door with his bottom lol ... driver kindly said ok il move the car :D
 
Trinity Fox said:
Yes the rider was being a dimwit but i have to say this and may not be popular if you are on a single track road where you are likely to meet livestock cars should be driving slowly and carefully.
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Trinity I totally agree with regards to the speed issue. However its a private lane.....owned by our landlord. There are numerous car workshops at the top of the lane. One of these being a high powered sportcar race team, lorries etc regularly come to drop off cars.
Someone who CANNOT ride, CANNOT even get to grips with basic steering, and needs to get off to turn the horse around, is NOT therefore a viable option for being on a road.....and made all the worse by being conducted in poor light and no hi-vis.
The only place for that rider should have been in a school or field under the supervision of a competent rider/instructor.
 
Yes i totally agree but whatever the track road is being used for racing cars or other if livestock goes up and down slow and careful i guess the point i was trying to make was even you as a horse owner are willing to admit to speeding on a single track, why is it acceptable for people to admit to speeding on a small road if i said i was going out drink driving it would be frowned upon speeding causes many accidents and deaths.

Remember the advert where the girl gets hit at 30 0r 40 miles an hour and the difference this is not a personal attack on you at all but i think it sometimes takes a horrible accident for people to realise they need to slow down, to put it another way you said you sometimes drive to excess speeds on a road with blind bends single track imagine if you were riding your horse on this road and someone late for work ran in to your horse speeding and injured it or killed it , your comments have been she was not in control of the horse not fit to be on the road you are a capable intelligent person who is willing to break the law and act in a reckless way while speeding who is worse ?
I guess i just wonder why it seems the only time law abiding sensible people seem to step over the line and act in a way that is wrong is when they are in thier cars and this is not aimed at you at a guess and this is a guess probably maybe 80 out of 100 people or more drive like this please correct me if you dissagree and as horse owners if we could chage this it would make the roads alot safer not just for riders but for all animals and other drivers.

Dont tell anyone but i do not object to you pulling said chav off horse then running over :eek:
 
Totally agree with Trinity Fox.
Also if novice riders aren't allowed on roads and lanes, then most trekking centres would close down..... (although chavs shouldn't be allowed to ride)
 
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