I was going to write about something other than trailer wrecks this week, however, there have been a recent rash of human safety infringements, a couple of horrific (lifelong neurological) injuries, and one tragic death of a person related to horse trailers in the last month. My father used to always tell me–when reminding me that proper position around a horse is important–not to get “caught between a rock and a hard place.” What he meant was, the horse’s hoof is a really hard place if you get kicked, but even the horse can be a hard place if you get pinned between it and a rock, tree, stall wall, trailer wall, or other tight space.

Take a look – at the tragic death of a life-long horsewoman after a beautiful ride in the North Carolina mountains, surrounded by friends –

https://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011310050030

Or a recent rescue of a horse trapped upside down in a ditch in the U.K