Car killing cows

[ozzy72]

How is this for odd?

A woman was left in shock after a herd of runaway cows trampled over her car.
Barbara Epps, 52, was travelling to work in her Toyota Yaris on the A4173 towards Edge in Gloucestershire when she spotted the herd.
Mrs Epps, from Quedgeley, Gloucestershire, told the Stroud News and Journal: "I was just driving along when all of a sudden these cows came hurtling out of a garden and flew over the car then crashed on to the road on the other side.
"Some came over the bonnet and others went right over the roof. I can still see their faces smashing into the glass as the windscreen shattered.
"I thought I was dreaming and I must be in a nightmare because it happened so quickly."
A spokesman for Gloucestershire Police said: "A herd of cattle came out from the driveway of a property by the side of a road and collided with the vehicle.
"They continued to trample over it."
Mrs Epps was treated by ambulance staff for shock but did not suffer other injuries. Her car was said to have been "mangled" during the experience.
She described the incident as "just horrific".
It is thought the five or six animals had escaped from a nearby field. None of them was injured.

[Craig.]

lol 5 or 6. This report makes it sound like a stampede of 50 cows.

None of them was injured

LOL thank god, i wouldnt want such a crap car damaging a precious cow :)

[BFMF]

lol 5 or 6. This report makes it sound like a stampede of 50 cows.

LMAO

[farmerdave]

LOL  I'll have to train the cows on our farm to do that during the Jamboree next year.

[ATI_7500]

LOL thank god, i wouldnt want such a crap car damaging a precious cow ::):)

Hey,nothing against japanese cars,mkay?  >:(

[Craig.]

face it, the yaris is a waste of already crowded road space. Nothing against japanese cars just that one.

[eno]

A similar thing happened to my ex's father... and it was another car that deserved it ... a Volvo. He was driving home to his house in the country after lunch at a friends ... he rounded a bend to be met by a full herd of cows (50 or so) straddling the whole road. He stopped to allow them to pass .... However several of them had other ideas and trampled over the top of the car writing it off .... My ex's father was luckly unhurt. The farmer was totally uninsured for such a mishap so it was left to my ex's father to pay all the costs ... it also turned out that if one of the cows had been injured ... HE would have been liable.

cheers
eno

[Katahu]

I don't understand why your ex's father had to pay for the damage since it was the responsibility of the farmer to take care and look after the cows.

IMHO, the farmer should have been seud by your ex's father for negligence.

[ozzy72]

Kat old buddy in some parts of Britain (rural areas) animals have the right of way etc. Its a rather tenuous legal area, but hey that is life. Britain isn't quite as mad keen as America on the Lawyer Culture, we prefer to just thump people Its more traditional, and why we have the most famous football hooligans in the world

[ATI_7500]

face it, the yaris is a waste of already crowded road space. Nothing against japanese cars just that one.

Humbug!  

[Katahu]

Kat old buddy in some parts of Britain (rural areas) animals have the right of way etc. Its a rather tenuous legal area, but hey that is life. Britain isn't quite as mad keen as America on the Lawyer Culture, we prefer to just thump people Its more traditional, and why we have the most famous football hooligans in the world

OOooohhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

It was in Britain. My bad.

[Woodlouse2002]

The farmer was totally uninsured for such a mishap

You make it sound like a suprise. I very much doubt on the insurance papers there is a definate reference to the damage ensued by the trampling of a car by a herd of cows.

it also turned out that if one of the cows had been injured ... HE would have been liable.

This may be so. But any farmer who's cow had just been injured in the process of writing off a car would be extremely unlikely to make the owner of the car pay for the cow. Infact, knowing most farmers, they would probably just have the cow put down and have the matter over with. He probably wouldn't even know that he could get the owner of the car to pay for it.

it was left to my ex's father to pay all the costs

Finally, couldn't the trampling of a car by a herd of cows be put down to damage by a third party?

[Blackbird971]

Hey,nothing against japanese cars,mkay?  >:(

At least our cars know what metal is.

WTF is a bonnet?

[Fly2e]

Blackbird, I think I need 3-D glasses to read your Sig!  ;D

Dave

[Woodlouse2002]

WTF is a bonnet?

A bonnet is the correct term for what you yanks call the "Hood".