Horse killed on motorway

[pippipony]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/c...re/8571649.stm

Very sad

[LHS]

My God, how does a horsebox just overturn, was it bad weather, mechanics ? Either way how sad poor bl@@dy horses.

[jens]

oh no. That is so sad. Thankfully no people were injured but the driver must have been devastated.

[willhegofirst]

Maybe it was a trailer rather than a lorry, these things are not always reported correctly. Very sad, for all involved.

[pippipony]

Looks like it was a trailer
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/new...2746-26049420/

[catdragon]

How devastating for all involved.... my thoughts are with the owner of those horses as well as the poor folks who hit them

[Stencilface]

How sad

After being in an accident where a trailer overturned (was being towed by a new disco) luckily no people, horses or dog suffered serious injuries, I don't want to travel in one again. Our accident was caused by the grooves that are made in the road surface by trucks on the inside lane - no-one at fault.

[Harper_Gal]

Having been nearly sideswiped by a horsebox going WAY too fast and changing lane WAY too violently on the M6 on sunday, I can believe boxes turning over!

Very sad for those involved, but one has to wonder whether enough people understand the dangers of driving trailers and boxes on the motorways. My mother saw a dangerously leaning trailer simply because the large horse inside was on the wrong side, and had no ballast to level the trailer out.

[Katt]

Very sad, when I opned this up I thought it was going to be about the accident on the M1 on Monday. I heard that it was a three lorry pile up, and when I went past where it happened (after sitting in tailbacks for 2 hours) there was a horsebox on the hardshoulder.

I hoped very hard that it wasn't one of the vehicles involved.

[MrsMozart]

So sad. Cannot know how the driver will be feeling.

I think, and this is just my opinion, that trailers are becoming too light. We've just bought one - it's old, it's heavy, and very, very stable. I don't drive over fifty miles an hour when towing and that is only on a good motorway or dual carriage way.

I also don't think that a large portion of people know how to load a trailer, i.e. having the only horse or the heaviest horse in the right hand section (in the UK).