Road safety
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‘Does a rider have to die?’ No police case after rider dragged along the road by car roof rack
“Being on a horse is my lifeline and my escape from the wheelchair, and I feel this driver has taken that from me as well”
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Owner of horse hit by car in front of witnesses shocked at police failure to investigate
“If someone had hit a pedestrian and failed to stop, that would be a crime; a hit and run, but the police were so uninterested, it was silly”
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Police hunt driver who sped toward riders and slowed to hurl abuse
“Our enquiries are continuing to try and locate the driver of the Ford and I am appealing to anyone who witnessed what happened to please get in touch”
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Government responds as road safety petition tops 13,000 signatures
Support for a petition that would make driving safely around horses a mandatory part of the driving test continues to grow — and the Government has now responded
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‘You never know when you might need it’: rider uses What3Words app to help driver in overturned lorry
I realised I didn’t have a clue where we were as I had been on my iPad all the way. I wouldn’t have been able to tell emergency services our location
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Rider who lost ‘real life unicorn’ in tragic road accident on mission to educate future drivers
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Near misses prompt rider’s call for safer road crossings in Newmarket
The rider said watching her hat-cam footage back each day made her realise how many close calls she was having with traffic
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‘Lucky escape’: revving mopeds cause pony to fall down five-foot drop
“The firemen said the mopeds had probably had their silencers taken off to make the revving sound extra loud, but it’s just dangerous”
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Equestrian ‘policing heroes’ and road safety ‘champions’ honoured in awards
The awards were set up by the British Horse Society in 1984 as a legacy to Sefton, the 19-year-old Household Cavalry horse who survived the IRA bombings in 1982
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Police stop 30 drivers for passing horses inappropriately in safety campaign
Officers also stopped five people to praise them for the way they had driven past the horses
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New safety app allows riders to report incidents ‘quickly and easily’
Riders can report any problems with a road or off-road user, slippery road surfaces, dogs, low-flying aircraft, nuisance drones or fireworks, in less than three minutes
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‘I still have flashbacks’: blameless driver who hit horse speaks out on emotional impact
“As I felt the impact I looked up and straight into Amy's eyes and thought ‘She’s only a kid. What’s happened?’”
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Number of horses dying on roads halved last year but figures remain ‘very worrying’
The BHS has released its most recent statistics on horse-related incidents
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Rider knocked unconscious after car overtook too quickly says she was ‘lucky’
The rider was diagnosed with concussion and suffered multiple injuries in the incident
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Police hunt man who hurled abuse as he followed riders on the road
The unknown man followed the two riders, shouting abuse
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Furloughed graphic designer creates free posters to promote equine safety
The designer has had a huge number of requests for posters asking people not to feed horses
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Police horses equipped with front and rear cameras to nab errant drivers
“If people think ‘Hang on a minute, that horse might have a camera on it’, it might make them behave”
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‘He ruined my life’: guilty plea for driver who killed horse on road
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Four horses killed in separate road collisions in six weeks
“As they got closer, I screamed, stood up in my stirrups and waved my arms at them to slow down, but they kept coming”
