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Horse Accidents website launches at Your Horse Live |
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Written by MyPetFriends
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Monday, 08 November 2010 |
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 The British Horse Society is to launch a dedicated horse accidents website at this year’s Your Horse Live designed to provide statistics and data which will be used to lobby the Government for better riding conditions.
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The website, www.horseaccidents.org.uk, is being launched to provide anyone involved in an equine-related incident with an easily accessible method of reporting it. Currently, an equestrian-related road incident may go unrecorded unless a human is injured and taken to hospital for treatment from the scene of the accident, thus statistics are poor.
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Initially, the website will record road traffic incidents concerning ridden and driven horses, incidents involving low flying aircraft, road surface dressings, dangerous dogs, fireworks, wind turbines, and issues with gates. There will be provision to add other concerns as they are identified.
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If you or your friends have fallen victim to any such incidents, then the BHS need your help; sharing your experiences could make a huge difference to all riders. Accurate statistics are essential in order to enable the BHS to lobby government for better conditions for equestrians and the BHS can only campaign when they have sufficient information to carry forward concerns.
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Sheila Hardy, BHS Senior Executive (Safety), explains: “Without hard evidence and hard statistics it is impossible to lobby those in power to make the changes that are required to ensure riding is safer for all – we need the public to help us before we can help them”.
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Throughout Your Horse Live there will be specialists available on The British Horse Society’s stand (Stand 38 in the Allen and Page Hall) to discuss concerns or incidents. The website will be the first of its kind and The British Horse Society will be distributing “goodie-bags” containing hi-viz tabards at specified times to visitors to the stand each day.
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