Response ID 309,309,590
Report number 1039
Date of incident: 4/6/92
Location: Easenhall Nr Rugby Warwickshire . Public bridleway. Belgian Blue cows with year old calves in the field.
Report: “My husband and I have walked through this field for many years with our 3 dogs on leads with no problems, our dogs were quiet. This particular day the cows were very noisy and unsettled. They ran down the slope towards us and bowled me over and then l was trampled. My husband managed to drag me away and two of the dogs ran away, one stayed with us.”
“I needed emergency hospital treatment for badly crushed legs and slight concussion. I spent several days in hospital and had treatment over months for ulcerated legs and was off work for 6 months.”
“We informed the farmer and the police and did try for some form of redress but after several months were told as we were fighting the farmers union we had no chance of success and we couldn’t afford to pursue it further. The local paper did a report on this subject. I do think there could be an electric fence particularly when cows with calves are in the field.”
Cattle Safety 
it’s just shocking, isn’t it? What walkers have to put up with. How many more such stories do we need for the legislation to be changed? It seems such a trivial issue in the scheme of things – but it isn’t, when people are seriously hurt and no longer use PRoW in the countryside because of unpredictable cattle being left loose. And this is not a recent incident either, it’s been going on for a long time. Thanks for sharing it
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Yes Gabriele – this could have been avoided by a simple electric fence – I suspect this field still does not have one to separate cattle from walkers.
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