Road safety

Drivers compete to be the slowest – and learn to pass horses safely – on Scalextric-style rural track

‘We need to keep the pressure on’: 200 rides take place as part of horse and rider road safety campaign

Man charged over road collision in which horse suffered fatal injuries

Riders prepare for new road design with innovative painted piece of tarmac

‘I thought I was going to land on the bonnet’: spooked horse jumps fence on to 40mph road

New crime law could provide more support for riders on the road

Police horse taken to hospital with serious injuries after collision with car

Dartmoor ponies to wear reflective neck bands after ‘sickening’ number of road accidents

Hundreds of miles of ‘quiet lanes’ developed to benefit riders, cyclists and walkers

Drivers urged to ‘Look out for Laura’ in campaign aiming to reduce equine road fatalities

Electric cars and horses: equine behaviour analysed in new research

Concerns route-use evidence does not include equestrians

‘What more can we do to be safe?’ Horse and teenage rider hit by drunk driver on road

Police and university team up to study how dash and hat cameras can boost road-user safety

Road incidents with horses down since Highway Code changed

Thanking and educating drivers and high-vis key to equestrian road safety, rider believes

‘Something bad happened today’: tiny rider calls for drivers to slow down to keep people and horses safe

Equestrians and cyclists ARE equal in Highway Code hierarchy, Government confirms

Highway Code changes to improve equestrian safety come into force

‘No excuse’: police investigating after driver drove at and abused riders