Re: Accident at ride this weekend in Montana...???

["Maggie Mieske" <mmieske@netonecom.net>]

I just find it interesting that so many people immediately start thinking
of all the legal ramifications of an accident before anything else.  It
would be even more interesting if anyone who was at that ride would be able
to suggest how it might have been avoided and could be avoided in the
future. We could all learn something.   Breathing deeply now!  
Maggie
Michigan

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> From: B.E. Jackson <riosanbravo@hotmail.com>
> To: mmieske@netonecom.net; ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: Re: Accident at ride this weekend in Montana...???
> Date: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 10:31 AM
> 
> 
> >
> >I think assault intimates some kind of intent to harm...this was an
> >ACCIDENT.  Wait until something like this happens to one of the
ridecampers 
> >screaming for all kinds of horrible things to happen to these riders. 
Put 
> >yourself in their shoes for heaven's sakes!
> 
> Calm down, Maggie. I instantly put myself in their shoes and felt the
horror 
> I'm sure we would all feel if we gravely injured someone with our horse
or 
> our car. Nevertheless, SOME lawyer, SOMEWHERE could conjure up a case 
> against the riders, just as participants in vehicular accidents have been

> prosecuted. It is something to bear in mind...equestrians are not exempt 
> from the laws of the land.
> 
> On the other hand, not having been there to see the finish line scenario,
I 
> cringe at the possibility that a truck could have so successfully blocked

> the raceway at such a critical stage. All the ingredients of disaster...
> 
> Bonnie in AZ
> 
> 
> 
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