Re: RC: Re: A tragic story-(sorry it's so long)

[Pam Johnson <pamjohnj@earthlink.net>]

I have to ride roads quite a bit here in suburbia and have a running 
battle with a friend who insists horses should travel with the 
traffic the same as bikes do. Well, I disagree. I always ride facing 
the traffic just so I can see what the approaching traffic if up to. 
I want to have time to bail out if need be. ( or at least have a 
chance to!)

Pam in MA



>As sorry as I am to hear about these lovely horses being killed, I have to
>agree with Tom---horses/animals are very hard to see at night unless they
>are right in the middle of the road and even then when your headlights pick
>them up, you are waaaay too close.   I hit a horse some years ago--on a dark
>night on a country road---this horse was an "escapee" and had been
>wandering/grazing along the side of the road, and stepped out from behind a
>tree shadow into the path of our car just as we reached that point---we hit
>his head and a good rate of speed.   However----this story had a better
>ending--we immediately turned around at the first place possible and went
>back---no horse to be found within a 1/4 mile of the area.   We stopped,
>woke up the owners and told them.  The horse was eventually found about 1/2
>mile away--with nothing but a broken jaw.
>     Perhaps people who ride at night should do a "test run" and have some
>friends ride along the road as you drive down it, just to check out
>visibility, etc.
>   Claudia
>
>
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