Riding and Road Safety Awareness Be Seen Be Safe!!!!
2012 has proven to be a summer of rain and dark miserable days. Autumn and winter are now here and the dark nights are upon us with the dangers of riding in poor visibility being an area that all riders must address regardless of ability or age! The consequences of not wearing high visibility equipment or being road aware is demonstrated in this photograph from The British Horse Society.
For many years the statistics for road accidents involving ridden or driven horses has beencollected by the British Horse Society. However, the old system was paper based and the information was perhaps unlikely to reach those who were not members of the BHS. The BHS believe that the number of horse related accidents were hugely under-reported. As a result the BHS has developed and launched the equestrian accident reporting website www.
horseaccidents.org.uk
The aim is to provide an accessible, user friendly medium for equestrians to report incidents. This will help to build an accurate picture of the safety issues equestrians face, supported by statistics. The website format is further reaching (appears in a Google search for instance), than a paper based system and means that non-members will be reached and more readily report.
The British Horse Society statistics should be a warn- ing to all riders that our busy roads can be a danger- ous place to be and riders must become more respon- sible.
The Riding and Road Safety Test offered by the British Horse Society provides training and advice to all rid- ers and is available through- out the country. Different areas can be contacted via the BHS website. Relevant
The details below give fatality and severe injury stats for road accidents reported
2010
3 Rider Fatalities 15 Horse Fatalities
2011
8 Rider Fatalities 19 Horse Fatalities
2012 so far 1 Rider Fatality 4 Horse Fatalities
information can be found at Horse Sense for Motorists (which can be downloaded from
http://www.horseac-
cidents.org.uk/Ad- vice_and_Prevention/ Riding_on_the_Road/ Advice_for_Motorists.
aspx and Road Sense for Riders from http://www.
horseaccidents.org.uk/ Advice_and_Prevention/ Riding_on_the_Road/
Be_Seen_Be_Safe.aspx Hard copies available
from
r.lucas@
bhs.org.uk or 02476840516
Report by Brenda Gray
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