sarahp
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Post by sarahp on Aug 20, 2011 12:59:19 GMT
You may well be right and I'm out of date, insurance companies seem to do anything to get out of paying up. But how ridiculous! Safer that vehicle drivers know it could be more of a risk surely?
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Post by ermyntrude on Sept 5, 2011 22:22:39 GMT
Safest thing for all riders using the roads is to study for and pass the BHS Riding and Road Safety exam and make sure they have insurance for any incident. The syllabus will teach you to ride defensively and to communicate properly with other road users as well as using high viz riding wear. Sorry to sound boring but this really does make a difference. I have been hacking out safely on roads for over 40 years.
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Post by honeybees on Sept 6, 2011 11:01:36 GMT
Shame can't send the drivers on it though, ermyntrude?
I'm sure everybody on this thread, well I hope, wears hi-viz, uses correct signalling and is insured.
Does not change the fact that a minority of drivers have no respect for horse riders on the road.
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Post by kickon on Sept 6, 2011 20:27:00 GMT
You wouldnt want to ride with nothing on with me ;D
If the horse fly's don't bite you you will be skinless if you go under the tree and through the woods ;D
Everbody can a have a bad fall it dose not matter how good you think you are!!!!
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sarahp
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Post by sarahp on Sept 7, 2011 7:29:45 GMT
Ermyntrude - maybe it's changed since but when I was involved with the BHS RRS it would required me to stand on the LHS of the road to turn right into my drive. On a narrow, busy A road this meant I had TWO lines of traffic passing me for hours, one in each direction, while sitting on a stationary horse dying to turn into his home drive, and nowhere to go on my left to escape the road. Sorry, but I never found that safe at all, but preferred to make it clear that I wanted to turn right by riding in the middle of the carriageway making a very clear signal right so that following traffic knew what I wanted to do and was prevented from passing. I always found that the traffic coming towards me would stop for me, and both lots were thanked very obviously.
Having said that, I'm a great supporter of road training, this was the only bit I disagreed with.
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archiepoo
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Post by archiepoo on Sept 9, 2011 12:00:35 GMT
i think that children should learn road safety when they learn to ride but also drivers should have to learn how to drive around horses as they are still considered transport and have every right to be on the road -however saying that the idiots who give us riders a bad name will never learn and the drivers that havnt a clue about hand signals will continue to turn our hair grey and frighten our horses. everyone laughs at me on my yard cos i wont ride without a ridiculous amount of flourescent clothing on me and my horse , but ive just learned you must not signal to cars when its safe to pass you as you can be held responsible if they crash! we just cant win! only last week i signalled slow down to an oncoming car and she waved at me like i was a long lost friend-better than the middle finger we get on other occasions tho!
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Post by highlandpony<3 on Sept 11, 2011 21:56:12 GMT
i always thank drivers if they slow down... so few of them in my area actually do! i once had some old bloke actually touch my ponys hock with his car... he was beeping and effing and blinding too... it was the ponys first hack on its own and after that it could only go out in company ... the pony also gave the mans car a hefty kick leaving a dent...
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