It happened during the last half-hour of our club drive this past Saturday while 15 MINIs were returning to base through Amish country in the extreme southeast corner of Minnesota. We're always on the lookout for the frequent buggy on the road shoulder, but in this case an overly-energetic steed evidently broke free of his harness and then decided to bolt out into the road. Missed a Cabrio by about 3 ft...coulda been worse. To our delight, Minnesota has done a great job repaving roads in Houston and Fillmore counties over the past 18 months. Nothing like a palate of smooth and bountiful new twisties in the neighborhood. Glad this "encounter" was post-twisty.
Yes in a straight line, but I out braked the little fellow in the next corner & took the win. :biggrin5:
Hitting a horse could have ruined your day, MINI and more! A friend hit a horse, at night, that decided to cross the road in Texas at a dead run. Dead was the result for the horse that ended up in the back seat of the convertible 1960 T-Bird. All 4 occupants of the car survived but a hospital and counseling were both needed. Do deer whistles really work???
Ugh, I was at a horse show once (back in my horsey days), and a horse got loose, ran out into the road and got hit. It was not a pretty site. The horse had to be put down and the people medivac'd out. :frown2:
I am still wondering if "Deer Whistles" would have helped??!!? I know that horses are sort of like deer in as much as they are skittish, not like a cow or a bull in the road, so deer whistles MIGHT work. Does anyone have experience with those little things we humans cannot hear?
Never mind horses, I don't even think deer whistles help with deer. My mother put them on her car years ago and a couple months later totaled the car when she hit a deer.....
Glad nothing happened. As for the deer whistles I read somewhere that while it may scare them it may also confuse them. So a deer that is hanging out near the road may take off running because of the sound, but it may run across the road.
Deer whistles won't work for horses. If they are spooked they will run period, most of the time they run away from the issue (like the horse in the picture). That being said, when they are in flight mode, their only thought is to run AWAY, which can often mean into something worse in developed areas. Unless you were my first horse, he just liked to jump the fence and go explore the neighborhood, and as an ex-racer, he liked to run up the smoothness of the pavement.:smile5:
All interesting stories! Thanks for the info, I guess deer whistles are out of the picture for my future, but maybe a cow catcher:biggrin5: