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Terrified Horse Hit By Furious Dangerous Driver On Country Lane
Terrified Horse Hit By Furious Dangerous Driver On Country Lane
I would like to know when and where this incident occurred.
The car driver is clearly an idiot but why didn't she trot on to a place where she could let the car go by? It didn't help the situation at all by sticking to walk.
The original FB post from the rider: https://www.facebook.com/southcoastequinevets/videos/1795208650536347/
The driver has had previous "issues" too: https://www.facebook.com/southcoast...540613836484/1795540613836484/?type=3&theater
Hope those links work.
Both links are to the video. I’m interested to read about the driver.
The comments are quite shocking from the “horses should be banned from be road” brigade.
The comments on Unilad are awful, that's why I put up the riders post. This is the same lady driver.
Thanks for posting that, I hadn’t seen it. Clearly this woman is pretty unstable. I do hope the police pay her a visit and warn her at the very least. That could have been a child with a dog or on a pony.
Looks like the driver has mental health issues .
How can you get out of a situation like that ? Could you have turned and got past the car going in the opposite direction,or trotted or stop and let the car past .
I would never expect a car to go behind me at five mph for any distance
Did the use of the phone inflame the situation increasingly the hat cam seems like a better idea .
The driver needs to be off the road she clearly has serious issues that’s not normal behaviour .
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I did also wonder about mental health - to be so abusive and then get out and pat the horse???!
I would always trot on to get to a passing place to prevent holding up the driver if the situation was a calm one. BUT if the situation was already inflamed and the horse was already on edge then I would be doing everything as calmly as possible, not trotting away from the car which could either train the horse to 'run away' from scary situations or get a faster / less controlled response from the horse than you were hoping for.
I did have to shout obscene sexual innuendos at a driver who was too close the other day waiting to overtake us on a blind bend.... which i had trotted round to make it easier and quicker for them to overtake i might add! Windows were down (result) and the wife and children looked dismayed ... (double result)
I did have to shout obscene sexual innuendos at a driver who was too close the other day waiting to overtake us on a blind bend.... which i had trotted round to make it easier and quicker for them to overtake i might add! Windows were down (result) and the wife and children looked dismayed ... (double result)
Pahahahahaha, I do love your comments.
I bet they looked at you as if you were mad?
I wonder how they’d react if someone was threatening the safety of their child? I wish drivers would realise that most of us are just trying to get the balance between safety and enjoying our equines.