My son and I were driving to a piano lesson. On a tiny lane we passed a family party made up of a child and mother both on horses and a dad and dog. I carefully checked for traffic and slowly passed them, giving them plenty of room in case either horse got spooked.
I had almost got round them when a car screamed round the road from the opposite direction at a great rate of knots and had to slam on its anchors to avoid me. Ijustmanaged to avoid the party of horses and get back onto my side of the road. The other car, driven by a teenage lass, skidded and drove into the hedge, which absorbed most of the force.
Nobody was hurt. The teenager's car had a dent on the inside front light but she was unharmed.
If she'd hit me and shoved me into the horses it would have been carnage. I feel physically sick at the thought of my car being pushed into that little girl on the pony and what would have happened to her (and to my son).
Why do some teenagers drive so fast?