I suffered multiple serious injuries: fractures to neck, pelvis, arms, ribs and internal damage.
On 10 August, 2021, my husband, Mark and I were walking on the outskirts of Stockport. We were with our dog who was on his lead. He was very calm and was not pulling on his lead.
Continue reading “Jill’s Story: multiple injuries”The cows were running fast and straight at us.
On the 26th August, 2022, I took my dogs out on our regular walk. I was walking on the old railway line just outside of Trevor (LL20) and going towards Llangollen, in Wales. The railway line links to a road which goes towards the canal.
Continue reading “Narrowly missed being trampled”One of us is still suffering from an injured back.
On the 31st July, 2022, we were walking along a public footpath, leaving Slaidburn on the approach to Panes Farm, in Lancashire. We were walking on the public path with our dog on a lead, and were about 200 metres away from the field gate. Half way across the field we could see a group of cows near the gate and lying down.
Read more: SL Story: a mad scrambleWithout warning, the cattle got up and started to charge towards us. It was then we noticed there were calves in the herd. We scrambled over a gate to get out of the way – which included having to throw the dog over the gate as best we could. My husband slowed their approach by making himself large and shouting at them, but they were still in charge mode – with one being particularly aggressive.
It took us at least 30 minutes of scrambling over drystone walls and gates to reach an alternative footpath. We escaped with only minor injuries, but one of us is still suffering from an injured back caused by scrambling over walls and gates.
In our experience, when entering a field because of the lay of the land it is often too late to realise cows are in the field.
In this case, there were no warning signs. We were lucky there was no barbed wire to scale over which would have made an escape very treacherous.
Farmers should not be allowed to have cows in fields that have a public right of way running through, especially with calves.
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Trampled to death in a field
It is always heartbreaking to report another death. This time, a 55-year-old woman has died after being trampled by cattle at a farm in Sussex.
Continue reading “Woman trampled to death by cows”I turned round and ran.
On the 30th April, 2021, I was walking along a public footpath near Legsby, in Lincolnshire. I was on my own, with no dog.
Walking through a field that seemed empty, and on a designated footpath that seemed empty, I walked through an open farm gate into another field. Halfway into the field, I spotted a mother and calf on the footpath.
I tried to skirt round them – but a herd of about twenty cows on the other side of the field started running towards me. I turned round and ran back the way I had come, and just managed to shut a farm gate before they reached me
Luckily I wasn’t injured, but I was pretty shook up. There were no signs warning about cows in the field, or that there where mothers with calves present in the field. I think there should have been clear warning signs, and that footpaths should be fenced off from livestock.
Respondent ID 266187629
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The saw us – and charged across the field.
In Febuary, this year, I was walking near St Nicolas in the Vale of Glamorgan, in Wales. I was on a footpath with my dog on a lead.
Continue reading “Dillwyn’s story”15 broken ribs, a punctured lung, and nearly strangled.
We were very sorry to hear of the cattle attack that left Sharon Eley with terrible injuries:
I could hear my partner shouting, “Get to your feet.”
On the 11th October, 2015, we were walking along a public footpath near Scouts Dike, Penistone in South Yorkshire, with our dogs on a lead.
Continue reading “Beverley’s story: knocked down by a cow”I ended up with 6 broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and a 7cm deep tear to my liver.
On the 9th May, 2022, we were walking on a public footpath across a field in West Burton, in the Yorkshire Dales. The footpath provides direct access into the village from a B road and from other public rights of way over adjoining fields.
Continue reading “Martin and Margaret: trampled by cows”I could hear the cow panting, see it snorting at me, see the ground move…
Julia’s Story
I am a 29-year-old woman not from the UK (and not very familiar with cows) who was on holiday in Northumberland. On the 8th June, 2022, I was walking with my partner and my dog on the path between Craster and Dunstanburgh Castle at about 3:30pm.
Continue reading “Julia’s Story: scared for her life”Had he tripped, it could have been fatal.
On the 8th June, I was walking on a footpath through Wild Bank Moors, just past the trig point, near Stalybridge. I was on my own and had my dog on a lead.
Continue reading “Richard’s Story: helping a fellow walker escape”I had nowhere to go, with a 5 ft hawthorn hedge behind me.
On the 30th of May, 2022, I was walking my dogs on a lead along a public right of way, between the village and Dalton (map reference DL11 7EX). It was 8:30am.
Continue reading “A Scared 60 Year Old: chased across a field.”
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