Wearing lights a worthwhile riding safety measure – study
Wearing lights when out riding on roads could last safer than wearing reflective or fluorescent clothing, enquiry suggests.
Rose Scofield, from Duchy College inwards Cornwall, Britain, conducted a questionnaire-based study to investigate the value of brilliant reflective vesture inwards reducing the adventure of near-misses betwixt horses together with vehicles.
She distributed questionaires through equine websites together with forums, receiving 426 replies.
Participants answered questions regarding the fluorescent or reflective equipment they together with their horses were wearing, together with whether they had been involved inwards near-miss incidents.
Scofield grouped the responses according to whether the respondents had experienced a near-miss alongside traffic or not. She together with thence examined whether they had been wearing reflective and/or fluorescent clothing.
Scofield, whose findings were outlined to delegates at the recent annual conference of the International Society of Equitation Science inwards the United States, flora that riders who responded to the questionnaire used around reflective equipment or vesture when riding on the road.
However, when she analysed the data, what she flora was perhaps surprising.
Reflective clothing, worn either past times the passenger or the horse, appeared to convey no pregnant number on the likelihood of a near-miss incident.
However, significantly fewer most misses were reported past times riders wearing lights.
“This suggests that wearing lights should perchance last recommended when riding on the roads to heighten the security of both passenger together with Equus caballus together with contribute to the welfare of the leisure Equus caballus inwards particular,” Scofield said.
“The role of lights past times a passenger together with Equus caballus combination may examine a audio contribution to the welfare of the leisure Equus caballus inwards avoiding possible route accidents.”
Road safety: is in that place a human relationship betwixt ‘near misses’ together with the role of passenger together with Equus caballus reflective/fluorescent equipment?
Rose M. Scofield, Hannah Savin, together with Hayley Randle,
Duchy College, Callington, Cornwall, UK
Proceedings of the International Society of Equitation Science (2013) p30
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