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Why can you not do this when there is a horse running around a motorway
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This may have been asked before, but why do hiways officers sit watching the traffic build up when 5 mins with their 4x4 they could clear the motorway of a broken down car stuck in the middle lane at rush hour?
This occurred on the M60 anticlockwise a few days back, near junction 22 - the motorway has 4 lanes, one which becomes the exit for junction 22, one which becomes a junction for 23, A car had broken down in the third lane, which was the fist of the lanes to carry on around the M60, but the hiways officers were sat in their Mitsubishi, on the raised platform as the traffic backed up to get around the broken down car. Why not just help and pull it off the motorway onto the hard shoulder?
This occurred on the M60 anticlockwise a few days back, near junction 22 - the motorway has 4 lanes, one which becomes the exit for junction 22, one which becomes a junction for 23, A car had broken down in the third lane, which was the fist of the lanes to carry on around the M60, but the hiways officers were sat in their Mitsubishi, on the raised platform as the traffic backed up to get around the broken down car. Why not just help and pull it off the motorway onto the hard shoulder?
janesmith1950 said:
In your picture there's a bloody great horse box in the outside lane!
That'll teach me! I thought it was something in the camera :sThough I'd still be interested to know why they're in that side on the road, rather than where the car is.
Edited by mcdjl on Friday 6th April 07:45
mcdjl said:
janesmith1950 said:
In your picture there's a bloody great horse box in the outside lane!
That'll teach me! I thought it was something in the camera :sThough I'd still be interested to know why they're in that side on the road, rather than where the car is.
Edited by mcdjl on Friday 6th April 07:45
That looks like quite a manky old horsebox. I wonder what happened - hope any livestock are ok as it won't have been their fault.
And one for the Traffic Officers ... I remember being told that if you have livestock on board a lorry or trailer and are stuck in a motorway stand-still that you can contact AHVLA/DEFRA who will arrange for you to be escorted off the motorway (if possible). Any truth in that ?
And one for the Traffic Officers ... I remember being told that if you have livestock on board a lorry or trailer and are stuck in a motorway stand-still that you can contact AHVLA/DEFRA who will arrange for you to be escorted off the motorway (if possible). Any truth in that ?
gothatway said:
That looks like quite a manky old horsebox. I wonder what happened - hope any livestock are ok as it won't have been their fault.
And one for the Traffic Officers ... I remember being told that if you have livestock on board a lorry or trailer and are stuck in a motorway stand-still that you can contact AHVLA/DEFRA who will arrange for you to be escorted off the motorway (if possible). Any truth in that ?
We've recently completed animal handling courses to enable us to deal with horses and dogs, we'll be trained with livestock and swans next. We have an list of contact numbers for each type of animal we attend.And one for the Traffic Officers ... I remember being told that if you have livestock on board a lorry or trailer and are stuck in a motorway stand-still that you can contact AHVLA/DEFRA who will arrange for you to be escorted off the motorway (if possible). Any truth in that ?
BossHogg said:
We've recently completed animal handling courses to enable us to deal with horses and dogs, we'll be trained with livestock and swans next. We have an list of contact numbers for each type of animal we attend.
It’s amazing how things go full circle. I remember years ago when the patrols used to have a dog pole and they were removed due to “lack of training”. THat said there’s little funnier than watching someone in high vis doing their best Big Bird impression trying to get a swan or goose to fly away... Flibbertygibbet said:
It’s amazing how things go full circle. I remember years ago when the patrols used to have a dog pole and they were removed due to “lack of training”. THat said there’s little funnier than watching someone in high vis doing their best Big Bird impression trying to get a swan or goose to fly away...
or sadder.....years ago as two swans lifted from J21 NB on the top end of the Thellwall viaduct, headed east, gaining height like a fully loaded Lancaster bomber heading for Dresden in the 1940s, to be slotted side on by a 40 tonners cab at 50mph on the SB lane. Probably not very pleasant for the driver either unless of Eastern European origin in which case Sunday roast was sorted!Are you allowed to shoot animals if the risk to a human life is higher? I have been in a country where swans were shot (they were "South of the border so not the Queens'") but that was 1998 so the world might be a bit more enlightened in animals / roads/ shootiness?
StanleyT said:
Are you allowed to [-]shoot [-/] kill animals if the risk to a human life is higher? I have been in a country where swans were shot (they were "South of the border so not the Queens'") but that was 1998 so the world might be a bit more enlightened in animals / roads/ shootiness?
I don't see any issue in killing an animal to prevent an accident or possible fatality http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wale...Unlike many of the keyboard warrior dog/animal loving idiots who haven't worked with animals on a high speed road in the dark with light flow high speed traffic.
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/...
Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 6th April 23:34
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