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A very British accident is making headlines today, after passionate horse rider Lynne Hallam, from Doncaster, South Yorks, posted video of it on social media, from where it was picked up by all the big national publications.
The accident occurred at the weekend, when Lynne took her horse Jess out for a ride. With them was Lynne’s husband, on foot. The footage released online was captured by Lynne’s mounted camera – but it has since been removed from Facebook.
You can see a snippet from it at the bottom of the page. You hear Lynne and her husband chatting away, as a car approaches them on the narrow country road. It doesn’t seem to slow down, not even when she starts screaming as a means to warn him that he’s coming too close.
The actual impact isn’t shown on camera, but movement of the camera suggests that the car made contact with the horse – and the woman’s husband, who’s shown next on the ground, nursing an injured arm.
The scene continues in the same typically-British way: the driver gets out of the car to apologize, and the woman rips into him because he had tried to “kill” her. She is convinced that he plowed into them on purpose and she threatens to call the police on him.
“You hit me. You’ve hit me husband. And you’re all on bloody camera. So that’s it. Police phoned. Why did you try and kill me? Eh? Why did you try and kill me?,” she says, as the driver is trying to apologize. “You didn’t make a mistake, you did it on purpose.”
In an update, Lynne wrote that both her horse and her husband were ok, and added that she couldn’t call the police on the spot because she didn’t have her phone on her. She also says the man is someone from the village and that he plowed into them because he was on his phone, thus not paying attention to the road.
Strangely enough, after the media picked on the story, Lynne deleted her posts. Reports say that she didn’t call the police, either.
You can see a snippet from it at the bottom of the page. You hear Lynne and her husband chatting away, as a car approaches them on the narrow country road. It doesn’t seem to slow down, not even when she starts screaming as a means to warn him that he’s coming too close.
The actual impact isn’t shown on camera, but movement of the camera suggests that the car made contact with the horse – and the woman’s husband, who’s shown next on the ground, nursing an injured arm.
The scene continues in the same typically-British way: the driver gets out of the car to apologize, and the woman rips into him because he had tried to “kill” her. She is convinced that he plowed into them on purpose and she threatens to call the police on him.
“You hit me. You’ve hit me husband. And you’re all on bloody camera. So that’s it. Police phoned. Why did you try and kill me? Eh? Why did you try and kill me?,” she says, as the driver is trying to apologize. “You didn’t make a mistake, you did it on purpose.”
In an update, Lynne wrote that both her horse and her husband were ok, and added that she couldn’t call the police on the spot because she didn’t have her phone on her. She also says the man is someone from the village and that he plowed into them because he was on his phone, thus not paying attention to the road.
Strangely enough, after the media picked on the story, Lynne deleted her posts. Reports say that she didn’t call the police, either.
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