has anyone heard anything about this?

Ischa thats totally uncalled for - someone might have let them out, the fence might have broken - in my field yesterday a TREE fell down and smashed all the post and rail fencing and it was only by the grace of god that mine didn't end up on a main road!

Awful for all involved.
 
i thought about that a deleted it, but i have seen many horses excape due to fences being tied up with rope etc
 
It's every owners worse nightmare. It happened last year at my last yard where someone let the horses out of the field by cutting the fence.This was early evening in early winter and several cars were damaged in the process.Luckily nobody was hurt and despite one horse becoming trapped in a ditch even she made it out with no more than a nasty chill from being in the ditch overnight.It was thought to be an attempted theft.
 
Years ago, a friend of mine was driving along minding his own business when he saw two horses running across a field ahead. He had enough time to realize there was no fence around the field when they ran into the road and were hit by the tractor trailer truck several cars in front of him.

One of the horses actually ricocheted into the windshield of the car just after the truck - my friend stopped and leaped out just as a woman came running across the field - they were her horses and had somehow escaped their paddock.

She begged my friend to shoot them on the spot as they were both horribly injured which he did (she ran back and got a rifle). It was the most bizarre and terrible experience he'd ever had and when he called me later to tell me, I thought he had to be making it up. Until I saw the article in the paper the next day.

This is my worst nightmare. My very first horse was killed in the road when he got out late at night. :(
 
We live very close to the A46 and its a nightmare of mine. Thankfully they'd have to try pretty hard to get out as from one field there is a field shelter with a stable door in it, plus two 5 bar (locked) gates, and the other there is a 5 bar gate and then they end up in a huge field owned by the local farmer, and then they'd have to go through another 3 gates to get onto the lane that leads to it!

TBH my biggest phobia is someone losing control and skidding off the road, going off the edge down the drop and landing on Frank!
 
Horrendous. I was in an accident nearly 10 years ago now where a loose horse was on the road, galloped towards the headlights of my Mother's car and leaped on top of it. I was in the back seat and when I woke up my Mother was unconcious in the driver seat, having hit her head on the wheel, her partner had the car roof embedded in his head and I had a hoof print on my head (??). She was in a coma for 3 months and is brain damaged to this day (although functional, her personality has changed beyond recognition).

I later found out that the horse was in a field with a missing section of fence, the owner said the council was responsible for replacing it and the council denied it. Just a horrible experience all round that could have been prevented if the stupid man had walked the field and put up some fencing. Not saying that's what happened here of course.. :(
 
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