KILL YOUR SPEED NOT MY HORSE

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On 31st May 2005 I hacked my beloved mare Holly with 4 other friends from my livery yard.  I was left last in the single file line of riders, we were all wearing hi-vis and it was a beautiful clear sunny day, we had only travelled 200 yards from our yard entrance when I heard a car in the distance that sounded like it was going fast!

As a rider you tend to listen more than normal for traffic, the next thing I knew was that the speeding car was close, I looked over my shoulder to see the red car slamming on the brakes and screeching to attempt to stop, those few seconds seemed like slow motion, I screamed to my friends "He aint stopping!" and tried to speed up to out run the car. 

The next I knew I was jolted forwards still on Holly as she scrambled forwards having been hit by the car. 

Holly saved my life by scrambling 20 feet or so, I then hit the ground and got up to find holly lying at the road side, I looked and to my complete horror saw at first one of her hind legs looked as if it has been shattered from the hock down, it just hung like it was made of rubber, I then saw the other hind leg that had a profound fracture and a huge open wound just behind her girth. 

By this time the other riders had all come back and were trying to pass Holly in therefreaked out state, this memory will never leave me, Holly tried desperately to get to her feet to follow her friends back to her stable but her legs would not carry her, all I could do was try to hold her down as thoughts rushed through my mind I realised I could do nothing for her.  In the background I could hear my friends shouting at the driver as so many people had heard the impact and came to assist but no one could really believe what had happened, by now police had closed the road and the driver was told to go for his own safety!!!!!!!

Eventually a vet arrived and said there was nothing he could do for Holly and gave her a lethal injection that ended her pain in seconds.  In the meantime a friend had called my boyfriend to say that I had been involved in an accident, he arrived to a sea of blue flashing lights and was told he was not allowed through, he insisted and drove through and had to continue on foot and came across something covered by the side of the road, he thought it was me...

Holly was taken to a crematorium and I was left devastated.  Compared to the loss I felt for Holly my injuries were minor, but the one thing this accident brought home with clarity were the dangers we ALL face while riding on public highways.  As a direct result of the accident I decided to start the  KILL YOUR SPEED NOT MY HORSE awareness campaign our aim is to make other riders that dare to use roads as safe as possible.