This will make an interesting insurance claim form.
Link to BBC website
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8184637.stm
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Silly beggars - I bet it would've stopped a lot sooner had they not chased it.
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suppose they were the owners ?
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Heard the one about the horny rhinoceros and the Volvo in the wildlife park?
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I think if I had three horses bearing down on me I'm as acertain as I can be that I'd have the presence of mind to at least stop or pull over to allow the biggest gap between me and the oncoming car.
If I were the insurer I think I'd contest it on negligence grounds.
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If you saw three horses running loose on a road, would you drive along beside them whooping and hollering and pointing a camera at them?
The reason the horse ran straight through that car was that there was nowhere else for it to go. The whole incident was caused by the car taking the video, and the one in front of it. Not intelligent behaviour, indeed half-witted.
At the risk of being controversial, I would suggest that if the cars were driven by Arabs, who have some horse culture, this silly incident wouldn't have happened. They would have stopped or slowed down like civilised people who know what a horse is. So the horse would have been able to go round that car.
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Agree with Lud. Idiots in the car taking the video entirely to blame. Even the most bomb proof or traffic aware of horses would have difficulty knowing where to go in this instance. Sheer stupidity.
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Absolutely right Lud.
There is someone writing in the local paper, saying it is quite ridiculous to have ponies and other livestock, on the New Forest, just waiting to be knocked down. In fact, they are encouraging accidents and death. Yup, just concrete over the whole thing so she/he does not have to drive with due care, rather than traveling on the available fenced roads.
Meanwhile her/his visiting friends feed the dear ponies and pet them, next to the road ......
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And go home with Tics, fleas, and horsefly bites as a pressie.
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That is not all AE, these are WILD ponies, many who have only been handled at 'round up' so are not human friendly if they don't get what they want.
Notices ask you not to go near them as they learn goodies come from cars, near the road, so that has to be a good place to congregate. Drivers don't learn how quickly they can dash into or across the road .... especiallu when only a few weeks old. Black cows are good too, when you find them in the middle of the road in the wee small hours ;-)
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"Black cows are good too, when you find them in the middle of the road in the wee small hours ;-) "
I know they carry horns, do they not have lights too?
I'll see your ;-) and raise you a :-)
JH
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My mother tried her best to write off her Austin Healey Sprite in the 70's when she hit a sheep on Dartmoor at night. They sleep on the tarmac as it's warmer having been heated up during the day...similar type accidents is probably why there's a blanket 40mph limit now over Dartmoor.
it's possible she had night vision issues now that I think about it...because she did the same with my step-father's mk10 Jag versus a dog....and the Jag well and truly won that one, she was in hysterics
mind you 60's cars lights weren't exactly that powerful were they?
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We had an ex-AA Bedford recovery wagon.
Tough old bus - hit a sheep, which went under and all I felt was a bump.
Saw the sheep in the rear view mirror lying in the road fairly neatly cut in two pieces.
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And go home with Tics
That makes me nervous.
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disgusted with the driver that drove into the horse
hope he got a hoove up his hooter and the horse was ok
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Why are you all being so hard on the driver of the squashed car? It looks to me like he stopped, two of the horses went round him and one which was presumably unsighted tried to hurdle the car and failed.
BIG
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Something similar happened a few weeks ago to a neighbour of mine. Some horses got out of their field at night and several people were trying to round them up. My neighbour's MPV was stopped on a single-track road with her standing in front and the horses cantering down the road towards her. She is an experienced horsey type and expected them to slow down. Unfortunately as it was dark and the horses were panicking a couple went round the car but one decided straight over was the way to go. The result was on hospitalised neighbour, fortunately not badly injured, a written-off MPV and a rather shaken horse with a few minor cuts.
Unreliable things, horses.
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Nay, BiG, tis not the driver who had his car destroyed who was at fault, but as Lud says the drivers on t'other side of the road.
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