Mounted search and rescue

["Patty Montoya" <riverrider@bak.rr.com>]

This is a connection to the story of the hit and run driver: 
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/top/4_1_JO23_HORSE_S10823.htm
It sounds like not only was the driver probably inebriated, he was driving 
without a license, on a GRAVEL road, and the horses were on a bridge and had 
no where to run.  Even if they had reflective gear and flashing lights, this 
guy probably wouldn't have seen them in time.  Tragic. Reminder to all of us 
that we can control ourselves and our horses, but we can't control idiots!
Patty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Nesbitt" <spanishequines@yahoo.com>
To: "MSAR" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 6:01 PM
Subject: [MSAR] BRIGHT SAFETY GEAR


> [Deleted included prior post and HTML duplicate, added
> In-Reply-To header.  -Una]
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>  Dana makes a great point, however the problem with the driver was that he 
> had priors for DWI and fled the scene.  These horses were white and 
> buckskin so the bright colors where almost a moot point in this particular 
> incident since that is as bright as you can be for a horse!  But I find 
> the driver telling the police the next day upon turning himself in that 
> the he "thought" he hit a deer to be a tad off the wall.  Deer just do not 
> come that big and so perhaps the hair of the dog that night was his major 
> problem.  As for the riders, I beleive they were where visibility could 
> have been poor, possibly on the shoulder of the road...single file or even 
> double, that part was not clear....they did go over an embankment falling 
> into a creekbed....I doubt seriously either horseman intended to jump 
> there.  The type of vehicle was nto disclosed.   Both the horseman and the 
> vehicle drier could have been at fault, but if the horses were visible, 
> the driver should have yielded to them f
> or horses have the right of way.  So many times, failure on DRIVERS part 
> to yeild to horseman is why to so many horsemen end up gettign hurt  while 
> riding on the road.  And they don't have to be drunk, just stupid and 
> speeding.
>
>  Karen Nesbitt
>  Illinois - Unaffiliated
>  Iroqouis County
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