Veterinary Response times to horses involved in RTAs.

[Klaudette]

There have been some truly terrible stories about horses having to wait hours before Veterinary help arrives after an RTA. In response to these truly horrible accounts, the British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) has developed an Emergency Services Protocol.
Currently the Emergency Services have no national register of equine practices who are able to attend incidents. So BEVA are recruiting Practices and compiling a list which will be held at Emergency Sevices call centres (in the UK).
Vets will be able to be contacted to deal with any incident deemed an emergency e.g. horses trapped in vehicles/stuck in ditches etc.
My heart goes out to everyone that has been involved in horse related RTAs and I hope that future incidents can be dealt with much more promptly.

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

here here to your final comment, there have been some very sad stories indeed on here of recent

 

[sylvapak]

last night there was a rta where one horse died immediately, the other was running around terrified amongst busy traffic... sadly thats all i heard about it but i will try to find out more

 

[GTs]

In the US police will put horses down - unfortunately their policy is to shoot the horse in the chest, as it is safer.