CanadianGirl
Well-Known Member
I'm so angry and need to rant!!!
Yesterday my friend was out on a 'trail ride' with another lady from my barn. The trail that they were heading to is about 1/2 a Kilometer away and you have to ride on the road to reach it. It's a pretty quiet road that is dead straight and the side that we usually ride on is wide enough to be two lanes, although it's only one.
As they were walking along the road, a car passed by and hit my friend's horse on the rear left leg and then kept going! A couple of cyclists had to stop the driver and when he got out he immediately went to check the damage to his vehicle. Luckily my friend and her horse are OK, but she was quite shaken up. The car missed her leg by inches! There was no sun shining in anyone's eyes or inclement weather, it was bad driving plain and simple! One of the horses was a Clydesdale, pretty hard not to see that I would think.
They came back to the barn and we all insisted that she call the police (RCMP - Royal Canadian Mounted Pissants) and make a report. After waiting forever on hold an officer spoke to her and told her that they 'didn't get involved' in things like this and that she should phone the public insurance company that we all use here! I have had the police call me at work and threaten to write me a ticket for speeding when some man that was road raging chased me down the road! Yet they don't get involved when someone hits a horse that has EVERY RIGHT to be on that road?
Unbelievable.
Yesterday my friend was out on a 'trail ride' with another lady from my barn. The trail that they were heading to is about 1/2 a Kilometer away and you have to ride on the road to reach it. It's a pretty quiet road that is dead straight and the side that we usually ride on is wide enough to be two lanes, although it's only one.
As they were walking along the road, a car passed by and hit my friend's horse on the rear left leg and then kept going! A couple of cyclists had to stop the driver and when he got out he immediately went to check the damage to his vehicle. Luckily my friend and her horse are OK, but she was quite shaken up. The car missed her leg by inches! There was no sun shining in anyone's eyes or inclement weather, it was bad driving plain and simple! One of the horses was a Clydesdale, pretty hard not to see that I would think.
They came back to the barn and we all insisted that she call the police (RCMP - Royal Canadian Mounted Pissants) and make a report. After waiting forever on hold an officer spoke to her and told her that they 'didn't get involved' in things like this and that she should phone the public insurance company that we all use here! I have had the police call me at work and threaten to write me a ticket for speeding when some man that was road raging chased me down the road! Yet they don't get involved when someone hits a horse that has EVERY RIGHT to be on that road?
Unbelievable.