Horse on dual carriageway = smashed windscreen!

im-lost

Ok then, as nobody else has brought it up..

Is this something you really want to be reporting to the police?
surely the fact that 'hubby' crashed in to a horse would be driving
without due care and attention.

you don't make it sound like the horse ran in to the car.. and a horse
on a road isn't something you can just not 'see'

Surely the actions of any sane person would have been to pull over
and alert the police that there was a horse on the road.

But to drive past, at such a speed that you are able to hit the horse and
sustain damage to the car just beggars belief.

spartacusthe1st

He was in the slow lane and the horse bolted out of a field about 10 ft from the side of the road.
It's just sheer bad luck and being in the wrong place at the wrong time,as I said I think he only clipped it.he was doing 65/70mph.

RedBern

we once had a horse go over the bonnet of our car, the owner was trying to move it from one field to the next and it was spooked and ran across the bonnet and cracked the windscreen. We were stationary at the time, fortunately. The owner wouldn't report it to her insurers, the police weren't interested, and we got nothing at all to reimburse us for the damage. The police wouldn't do anything as she wasn't obliged to report it as it wasn't a road accident, and our insurers wouldn't do anything for the same reason. That was some years ago, and times have changed - not least I wouldn't give up so easily.

I'd get your windscreen done for the £75 excess - one from a scrappy will cost you £50 and then you need to get it fitted properly. Take the hit and write it off to experience.

tescobabe69

rev_henry wrote: »

I would have thought that any proper horse owner not of the travelling community would have public liability insurance.
I also cannot imagine someone could lose a horse for very long...what have the police done with the horse exactly if they can't find an owner?!

They lent it to...................Rebekah Brooks

spartacusthe1st

Hubby saw the horse this morning as he drive to work in a field round abouts where he hit it so must b ok?rang the police the person who deals with it isn't in till Monday typical!

I had a phone call from claims direct place today but missed it do they left a message.any use perusing this?

Weird_Nev

Hope the horse is ok.

If the A-pillar is bent then the car is most likely structurally compromised, and a proper assessment needs to be made to check that it's safe. If the horse is in a field then it can't be a great stretch to find the land owner, who will presumably know (or be) the owner of the horse.

And it IS a road traffic accident under the terms of the Road traffic act, and your husband is under obligation to report it to police ASAP and in any case within 24 hours - it sounds like this may have been done.

I'd really be wanting to get the horse checked over though, given the damage to the car.

Sgt_Pepper_2

im-lost wrote: »

Ok then, as nobody else has brought it up..

Is this something you really want to be reporting to the police?
surely the fact that 'hubby' crashed in to a horse would be driving
without due care and attention.

you don't make it sound like the horse ran in to the car.. and a horse
on a road isn't something you can just not 'see'

Surely the actions of any sane person would have been to pull over
and alert the police that there was a horse on the road.

But to drive past, at such a speed that you are able to hit the horse and
sustain damage to the car just beggars belief.

I take it you don't drive.

Hitting a horse is a reportable collision.

spartacusthe1st

Yes the police were called reports made etc.

Hintza

im-lost wrote: »

Is this something you really want to be reporting to the police?
surely the fact that 'hubby' crashed in to a horse would be driving
without due care and attention.

You have obviously never come across animals on the road. In the old days between the Cape and Jo'burg the worst thing was hitting a Kudu . They tended to be a bit !!!!ed off and the if they weren't dead the horns could gut you in a jiffy!

rev_henry

Hintza wrote: »

You have obviously never come across animals on the road. In the old days between the Cape and Jo'burg the worst thing was hitting a Kudu . They tended to be a bit !!!!ed off and the if they weren't dead the horns could gut you in a jiffy!

My neighbour used to work extensively in the far North of Scandinavia, and said elks were a major problem - they'd just waltz across the road in the dark, cars would smash into them, destroying the car, and the things would just get up and carry on because they were so massive and barely noticed it. Apparently special 'elk fences' were erected...