Stop the world ,I want to get off

[carthorse]

So we have a lot of issues and problems at the moment that I don't want to talk about on here and yesterday we shouldn't have bothered going to regionals but you only get one chance so you have to take it.
Then today I am driving at work and my phone goes ,I pull over and it is my daughter to say her and Penfold have been involved in a RTA. They are OK just shaken and scratched .Apparently she was riding down the single track road that our stables are on, a car was behind her and stayed back until she could get into a safe place, he saw everything.
A car canme around the corner at great speed and just didn't stop, luckily Penfold jumped into and through the hedge, scratching his legs.The driver stopped after he passed her and before hitting the car.
As my daughter is a police officer she was on his case and when she got to the car he was crying and asking her not to report it. He was very young and has been working on a barn conversion down the road .
She was fuming because he would have hit any other horse and the witness thought he had hit him and thrown him over the hedge!.
She went down to the police station and he had already phoned in to say sorry and give all his detail but she is going to follow it up because he would have killed another rider and we walk down there with her daughter on lead rein.
So just when you think you have had enough , more happens , still it will soon be 2009!

 

[kerilli]

thank the lord they are unhurt, that is a miraculous escape. honestly, i would be thanking my lucky stars that my luck had changed, i think! most horses wouldn't have reacted that fast and the consequences don't bear thinking about...

 

[Jo C]

Oh no. At least both your daughter and Penfold are ok. Idiot driver.

 

[sarahs]

I bet he did cry when he realised your daughter was a police woman ! He must of been in shock aswell though idiot !
Glad she is ok, thank god she was on penfold and not leading her daughter out ! jesus that would have been awful!
I personally wouldnt accept the sorry ! Ive only just stopped speeding and breaking the hwc now im on 9 points and im scared of losing my license so maybe he needs to be taught a lesson.
Dont get off the world ive heard the other places arent all that !

 

[TableDancer]

How terrifying, but I'm with Kerilli on this - view it as great good fortune as it could have been indescribably worse... Perhaps this is the turning point for you - I hope so ((((hugs))))

 

[BBs]

Terrifying.
Im so relieved to hear C is okay and Penfold too.

2008 stinks IMHO, the sooner it pisses off the better.

 

[kerilli]

BBs, i second that!

 

[Salcey]

Me too!!

Thank goodness your daughter and horse are unhurt.

 

[Haniki]

What a fright for your daughter, I'm so glad she and Penfold aren't seriously hurt. I'm sorry to hear you're going through a rough time, hope it gets better soon.

 

[I_A_P]

How frightening

these things just happen so fast. I am glad Penfold and your daughter managed to esape relativly unharmed

Hope everything starts sorting itself out soon

 

[Gonetofrance]

I am so glad they are both OK. I had a dread in my heart as I read the start of your post.
Hopefully it's one less idiot on the road, with the only (not meaning to belittle it) damage to horse and rider short term.
Clever boy Penfold..........most horses I've had react to a driver have jumped into the road........
Ignore the negative from this, and grab the positives, it could have been so much worse.
Hope things improve.

 

[Bubblegum]

How awful. Glad they are both ok. These sort of things send shivers down my spine. It could happen to any one of us. Your daughter should definitely report this IMO. Although the driver was young and very sorry - sorry isn't good enough. He has to mend his ways and learn to drive within the law like the rest of us. It is harsh, but true. I tell my young sons exactly the same about speed.
I do hope this is the end of your run of bad luck.

 

[carthorse]

You are all so lovely , thank you, have checked him tonight and he seems Ok but we will see what he does when a car approaches him. My daughter has driven down to Southampton to visit my Mum and has just seen a dead seal on the beach , poor thing.

 

[Thistle]

Jeez pleased they are unhurt. Of course he should have the book thrown at him - he was breaking the law that is there to protect us all.

 

[Gonetofrance]

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have checked him tonight and he seems Ok but we will see what he does when a car approaches him.

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I had a horse hit by a car.......he had always been bombproof in traffic, and remained so after he recovered.
It took me a lot longer tho'................

Good to hear there's no problems with him physically.

 

[Folara]

Hi hun, Im sorry to hear you have been having a bad time and this was a bit like the icing on the cake. I would be very proud of Penfold for his own sense of self preservation, what an absolutely super horse he is. I am sure he will fine and thank god he wasnt hurt too much.

Hugs to you and daughter.

 

[carthorse]

Thank you ,you are all very special and kind people

 

[Fahrenheit]

meep that was close shave!

(((HUGS))) to both you and C xxx

 

[minmax]

Thank god they are ok, glad she is going to follow it up. Maybe this young lad will tell his friends and some of the next generation of hooligans will be a bit more carefull?
A single track lane seems to mean race track to most of them. If she had been a tractor he wouldn't be alive to tell the tale.

 

[carthorse]

Just so lucky she was on the eventer rather than the dressage horse , who would have just stood there and been killed

 

[Halfstep]

Terrifying. So glad your daughter is ok. I've been hit by a lorry on a horse and it was one of the scariest things that I've ever been through. Good horse for jumping out of the way.

 

[Hattikins]

Terrifying experience

Really glad your daughter and Penfold are ok.

 

[harvgj19]

Well done Penfold. Thank goodness they are both ok.

 

[Bella3puff]

Glad there ok.....

Claire rang me today to find out how we were doing at the champs..... we had a quick chat etc.... will you be at RC Music Q on sat???

Sending hugs

 

[carthorse]

She will be but we both have to work so don't know how we are going to get her there yet , as she is on a prov. licence. Hubby may have to drive there and then go to work and I will have to work and then go and pick her up but will see her times first. Trouble is getting into the place without paying !

 

[sachak]

goodness gracious me thats awful. i am so glad to hear that penfold and your daughter are merely shaken but unharmed. I do hope your daughter follows this up as tbh until drivers start feeling the consequences of such idiotic driving nothing will change. sounds to me as though the driver was uninsured - but that however is another story! - xx