PETA Asks Mayor To Ban 'Cruel, Dangerous' Horse-Drawn Carriages

POSTED: Tuesday, December 23, 2008
UPDATED: 2:18 pm EST December 23, 2008



In July, three people were thrown from a horse-drawn carriage when their driver hit a curb while trying to help the driver of a carriage with a broken wheel.
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PETA's Letter To St. Augustine Mayor (PDF)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- PETA on Tuesday sent an urgent letter to St. Augustine Mayor Joseph L. Boles urging him to push for legislation that would prohibit horse-drawn carriages within the city.

PETA's letter came on the heels of a Dec. 15 incident in which an SUV hit a horse-drawn carriage, ejecting the passengers and causing another horse to bolt across four lanes of traffic.

PETA pointed out that the incident was the third involving a horse-drawn carriage in St. Augustine since June 2007. The organization said similar collisions have occurred in nearly every city in which horse-drawn carriages are still permitted to operate, and that the accidents cause serious injuries and fatalities to horses, motorists, carriage operators, and passengers.

According to PETA, a growing number of cities have realized that these antiquated contraptions have no place in city traffic: Biloxi, Miss.; Las Vegas and Reno, Nev.; Palm Beach, Panama City, Key West, Deerfield Beach, and Pompano Beach, Fla.; Santa Fe, N.M.; and Camden, N.J., as well as London, Paris, Beijing, and Toronto have all implemented bans.

"A horse-drawn carriage on city streets is an accident waiting to happen," said PETA Director Debbie Leahy. "This incident should be a wake-up call that the only way to ensure the safety of passengers, motorists, and horses is to ban horse-drawn carriages. We urge the mayor to act before the next accident."


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Does PETA not realize that in some states, I know in my home state of Arkansas, horses and horse drawn vehicles have the same right of way as pedestrians and byciclists! If they want to argue about a mode of transportation causing damage lets compare the emissions of the horses to the emissions of the cars.

Perhaps they should push for harsher penalties for people involved with carriage accidents. Most of them have slow moving triangles on the back and im sure all but a small percentage of accidents are the motorists fault.

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Actually there are many more pedestrian-motor vehicle accidents than those involving horses. Wouldn't their time and efforts be better wasted (waste of donations seems to be a major goal) trying to ban pedestrians? How about children playing on sidewalks being hit by drunk drivers going off the road? We must therefore also ban children playing on sidewalks. Don't forget the worst offenders, vehicle against vehicle. Down with cars, suvs and trucks! If they follow that logic, eliminating the more common causes of accidents they won't have to worry about the horses. They'll be the only ones on the roads. God forbid they push for something realistic like penalties for not paying attention while driving and hitting something as slow as a horse-drawn carriage.

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