Video… by far the worst driver yet

[Barton Bounty]

Did you accidentally drop your crop or maybe the car knocked it out of your hand?

Yeah i think thats what happened

 

[LadyGascoyne]

I’d just be honest BB, you got a fright and reacted. It’s perfectly understandable to act reactively and without thinking - he put your life in danger. That is horrendous driving.

 

[luckyoldme]

I'm just playing devil's advocate here.
The driver is a complete knob and your horse handled it well.
However your horse got a bit of a fright when you threw your crop at the car windscreen?
I don't think this thread paints you in a good light as a victim.

 

[Glitterandrainbows]

Rubbish driver good Bb and beautiful scenery, I’d deffo report.

 

[Gloi]

I have reported it, i will not say I threw it then

You dropped it in fright

 

[Barton Bounty]

I’d just be honest BB, you got a fright and reacted. It’s perfectly understandable to act reactively and without thinking - he put your life in danger. That is horrendous driving.

I will be honest, Im not a liar, cant lie to save myself

 

[Barton Bounty]

I'm just playing devil's advocate here.
The driver is a complete knob and your horse handled it well.
However your horse got a bit of a fright when you threw your crop at the car windscreen?
I don't think this thread paints you in a good light as a victim.

Your probably right, but given the fact I stopped for him and then I actually got a fright at the speed he was approaching. I couldnt care less. I am just thankful to be alive for another day

 

[nagblagger]

Any update? What did the police say?
Must admit the traffic around where i ride were brilliant today, when i was riding spooky mare, who wasn't worried about the cars but the scary bit of paper on the floor!

 

[JBM]

Any update? What did the police say?
Must admit the traffic around where i ride were brilliant today, when i was riding spooky mare, who wasn't worried about the cars but the scary bit of paper on the floor!

Unfortunately she wont be able to respond for awhile cuz two members reported her posts yesterday

 

[LadyGascoyne]

I will be honest, Im not a liar, cant lie to save myself

Nor can I! pros and cons to that.

 

[Barton Bounty]

Soooo careless driving it is

 

[southerncomfort]

Well after our ride this morning, I'm going to be purchasing a hat cam.

The incidences of poor driving are too numerous to list here so I'll just single out the driver coming towards us who refused to slow down despite me asking politely several times, and the biker with a passenger riding pillion who passed so close to us that I could have reached out and pushed him off his bike if he hadn't been going so fast.

I definitely would have reported him to the police.
Thankfully Bo is extremely good in traffic but if the biker had have passed another horse and rider like that he could have caused a very serious accident.

 

[Barton Bounty]

Well after our ride this morning, I'm going to be purchasing a hat cam.

The incidences of poor driving are too numerous to list here so I'll just single out the driver coming towards us who refused to slow down despite me asking politely several times, and the biker with a passenger riding pillion who passed so close to us that I could have reached out and pushed him off his bike if he hadn't been going so fast.

I definitely would have reported him to the police.
Thankfully Bo is extremely good in traffic but if the biker had have passed another horse and rider like that he could have caused a very serious accident.

Its a shame we have to but it is definitely the best thing

 

[Chappie]

I haven't been on the forum in ages, but popped on to check out hat-cam reviews - and I can totally relate to this post, having had an almost identical speeding incident yesterday - with added significant puddles, you know, the sharp crack and big spray when cars go through them at speed? Yes that! My cob was a saint. I had shouted three times SLOW DOWN and waved my arm up and down for "slow" - he just cheerily waved back at me while thundering past.

I guess he just had no idea how to pass a "vulnerable road user"?

Earlier in the day, I was taking a small girl wearing a bright pink outfit (so, VERY obviously a small child) out on a lead rein walk. Very small pony too. On the way out I was passed literally centimetres from my arm by a 4x4. Saw the middle aged couple with small girl get out of the car at the farm shop car park. On the way back, even more frightening - a man in a saloon accelerating so fast towards us the car was "weaving". I frantically waved my arm up and down to slow him, he nearly took my arm off. Although mature, that was the pony's first time off this particular yard, it only recently joined the yard.

So I have to start doing MORE to stay safe. Already dressed in massive multicoloured fluorescent hi-vis tabards, hat bands, huge quarter sheets, leg wraps. Unfortunately, I'm the only one on my yard who bothers.

I'm tempted to just go for it and get a Technologic DC1. This would provide evidence - but I need a really bold good tabard to educate drivers - trouble is they are going too fast to read it?!

I just want a huge SLOW (10 in the white and red circle) and WIDE in really big bold letters. Maybe the camera symbol as well?
Maybe a t-shirt printing shop would do it for me? I've got an (will get more I think!) oversized orange and yellow tabard.

I wonder if I could approach the farm shop and ask them to display posters, if Pass Wide and Slow could supply them? Good idea? I'm a designer, so could make something myself, but want it to look 'official'.

The vast majority of traffic on the road is going to and from them since they opened the shop a few years ago, or heading out to homes in the countryside from the city. Everyone seems to belt along these days. Drive right up to us really fast then brake a few meters before us. Often huge 4x4s, always in a hurry. Of course, some drivers are lovely and I'm hugely demonstrative of thanks, smiling, waving, get out of their way into passing places if possible. It's Scotland, so a bit backwards in dealing with this sort of thing, to be blunt. People don't like people "making a fuss". These are back roads, rat-runs nowadays I suppose. A few bends but mostly straight and open view.

Have to use the roads to get to the off-road (which has its own set of issues!)

 

[Barton Bounty]

Get the techalogic, its brilliant.

I have a tabard that says 10mph, camera recording and a wee picture of it.
Then it says dangerous driving will be reported. I am now going to buy Iron on vinyl for the exercise rug I have
I will get the link from hubby

 

[Barton Bounty]

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This is similar, but as hubby says, there will always be w@nkers on the road

 

[PeterNatt]

Chappie! Print some of these off and leave them at the farm shop.

 

[Chappie]

Thanks folks, that poster and tabard are great! Defo going to up my game on this.

 

[Barton Bounty]

And coming in a close second last week was too fast. Today was way too close ffs

 

[Barton Bounty]

This is my vest

 

[bonny]

And coming in a close second last week was too fast. Today was way too close ffs

I don’t see that he did anything wrong.

 

[Barton Bounty]

I don’t see that he did anything wrong.

He was practically 6 inches off bbs back leg

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

We had a knob head on Sunday, over took on a sharp bed with a car having to suddenly stop and move over and he had 2 bicycles close behind, he was reported .

 

[Barton Bounty]

We had a knob head on Sunday, over took on a sharp bed with a car having to suddenly stop and move over and he had 2 bicycles close behind, he was reported .

There is actually no need whatsoever for this. Its an absolute joke, i was already tucked in but as you can see I have a ditch at one side and a ravine at the other
I was just about to pull in for him in about 6 steps as the road widens slightly on the corner. The road is narrow enough.
Passed about 10 and a couple of lorries.. all great apart from this one

 

[Barton Bounty]

Then you get these kind drivers

 

[Parrotperson]

And coming in a close second last week was too fast. Today was way too close ffs

I’d send that to the police. He needs a quiet word. You’d asked him to wait. He didn’t and overtook on a bend he couldn’t possibly see round. They’d like to talk to him.

 

[Barton Bounty]

I’d send that to the police. He needs a quiet word. You’d asked him to wait. He didn’t and overtook on a bend he couldn’t possibly see round. They’d like to talk to him.

I feel like a moaner thats three weeks ago , then last week and now this week. Its really quite sad!
Think we need a little campaign going on around here

 

[JBM]

And they would blame you if bb rightfully got spooked and kicked their car

 

[Barton Bounty]

And they would blame you if bb rightfully got spooked and kicked their car

Hubby said I think you need to teach him a new trick lol

Im usually really good at stepping it up and moving out the way. Some drivers are never happy

 

[Parrotperson]

You ate NOT a moaner. You have the right to be treated with respect by other road users. It’s as simple as that. Report them all.

Come the revolution all idiots behind the wheel will be the second up agains the wall. (The first will be the idiot government…….)