Terrifying footage shows 'reckless' driver who 'could have killed' horse rider on country road

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A driver has been slammed after they were caught on video driving dangerously close to a horse rider at high speed. Rider Aimee Hussey posted the footage from her helmet cam after the motorist, travelling well over the 40mph speed limit in a red Nissan, past just inches away from her and 20-year-old mount Jak.

The 24-year-old has just joined the road from a bridle path next to Bury and Rochdale Old Road, close to Bury's Fairfield Hospital, when the shocking incident took place.

Aimee informed police and has made the video available to them should they choose to prosecute the driver, Manchester Evening News reports. "The Highway Code states a driver should always pass a horse wide and slow," she said in a social media post."You should slow down to 10mph and give at least two metres of space.

The road I am riding on here is a 40mph road. As you can see the first car passed correctly, a few seconds later the second car didn’t even bother to slow down!"As a horse rider I know how quickly horses can get spooked and best believe it they jump sideways, forwards and backwards before you have time to step on your brakes!"It only adds a few seconds onto your journey to be courteous so please slow down just a little!"Today, she told the Manchester Evening News: "What that driver doesn't realise is that his or her recklessness could kill them as well as us."If a horse ends up on your windscreen when you're driving at that speed, there's not going to be good outcome."Aimee has been riding horses since she was five years old and has show jumped with Jak until he 'retired'."Now I just hack him around," she said. "Which is lovely for us.