Near Miss

[Andi]

Driving back from the End Of Season Bash down one of the many dodgy single tracked roads.

Sometimes you just get a certain feeling (like a spiderman sense)when approaching a bend, and so slow down a bit.

Well glad I did because I was not ready for what came thrashing round the corner.

A horse at running at full pelt, all saddled up and had thrown its rider, who I found a few hundred yards away. I swerved out of the way and gave the angry pedal some abuse to scare the thing from jumping on my head.

 

Horse and rider were both ok and it came back to its owner after 5 minutes of running away.

It was bleeping close though.

 

Andi

[Guest emmab]

Glad your ok Andi, very scary though. Glad both horse and rider ok too x

[Andi]

Cheers Emma,

Wonder if the horse had been to the same party as the one at the Ostrich??

[tractor]

thats why they should keep large animals off the roads and in feilds sorry horseE people but they are to big and spook to easy

[Guest Pauljordan]

Andi I knew your new car was only 1 horse power......

[Dean Roberts]

Bloody hell Andi...single horsepower Vs 'The Green Mean Machine'

 

......Normally I would say the more horse power the better chance of winning.

But in this case, I'm glad your all home safe and sound (family and the car)

[Kerry]

Luck your spider sense had not been subdued by the consumption of Vodka over the weekend.

Horses have four legs and should remain in fields, not on the road, or a slow horse box. Sorry if it offends some people.

[Bob Tucker]

Nah!

on a plate.....

[Al Milton]

Oooo Bob - you'll only upset the veggies!!

Made me chuckle though........

[tractor]

through out my motorcycling years i was extremly lucky to not come a cropper on a pile of horse poo but a lot of my mates were not as fortunate luckily none of them seriously injured the bikes not so lucky

[thespannerman]

If your dog dumps in the road it's a £1000 pound fine. Had a few close ones with horse poo on bikes. Round here however slow you drive past they wave their arms and shout abuse. If you have a horse get a field to play with it in and keep it on a lead at all times.

[speedtripledan]

Its the arrogance of the owners that winds me up.

[Guest Nik]

Not all horse owners are arrogant!! Nothing worse than sitting on horse back being able to hear but not see car/bike coming and knowing full well driver/rider can't see you and being able to do nothing but sit hold tight and hope!! Remember the horse was mans transport long before the car arrived and if there's horse poo on the road (which is mainly grass by the way)there could well be a horse around the next corner!!

[GambolGold]

I'm very glad everyone is okay, with valuable lessons learned and shared. Personally I have no issue with horses or the riders or drivers of horses. As the good book (Road Craft) says: dont go so fast that you cant stop within the distance you can see to be clear. We can all get on using a bit of discipline (if we have been educated, another story). It's a crying shame the level of horsemanship is so low at least around where I live: riding on the pavements, slouching, loose reins, chatting, texting on horseback. These are habits which make the above comments of 'keep them in fields' seem almost reasonable. Horse riders are letting their side down at least around where I live (some, not all).

Edited September 19, 2015 by GambolGold

[Andi]

Do horses have mandatory insurance

Or is it like bicycles