What must you do when approaching a person who is riding or leading a horse upon or near the roadway?

Question

What must you do when approaching a person who is riding or leading a horse upon or near the roadway?

Answer 1

Slow down as you go around them, making sure to blast an airhorn as you do so, then screech your tires. Hopefully, your car will also backfire as an added bonus.

Answer 2

agree

Answer 3

First slow your car right down and stay at a constant speed while passing the horse. Don't make any sudden movements with your car and stay as far away as possible. I used to work at a stables and the amount of times our horses got spooked from idiots speeding past was just crazy. Its dangerous for  everyone involved!

Answer 4

Regardless of whether or not a state rules of the road law addresses this situation it is a situation where common sense defensive driving applies. Animals running loose near the roadway are least predictable and after that I expect children and then horseback riders are the next least predictable. Most states have school zone speed limits ranging between 15 and 25 mph when children are present and I think common sense dictates that the same restriction should be applied in situations when horseback riders are near the roadway. So the answer to that question is to "slow down to a speed which would allow you to yield and stop if necessary."

I actually had the misfortune of witnessing the aftermath just moments after it happened where a horseback rider was struck by a car. The horse was killed and the car was a total wreck and the driver of the car was also killed when the horse crashed onto the hood and peeled back the top when it plunged through the windshield and the rider of the horse was critically injured. That was a terrible accident scene to witness. Drivers behind the car that hit the horse said the driver slowed to about 45 or 50 mph when he approached the horseback rider who was about 6 feet off the highway on the shoulder and that the horse suddenly lunged onto the road an instant before he hit it. A horse is too tall for the car bumper and front end of the car to absorb the impact and it is going crash onto the hood and into the windshield and so extremely slow speeds are necessary in a car/horse collision if the driver is to avoid serious injury or worse.

Answer 5

don't make any sudden movements to frighten the horse. also, be very quiet and move along with ease as to not appear as a threat to the horse

Answer 6

Slow down, don't honk. I don't know how many times I've been riding near the road and a person speeds by or honks, and my horse spooks.

I'd pull out of the way if nothings coming the other way just as a safety measure.

Answer 7

You must go around them after slowing down and DO NOT BLOW YOUR HORN.

Answer 8

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