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23-11-2013, 07:34 PM

Rescue services and dogs

Early hours of this morning 3 ladies broke down in their motor home with their dogs. The RAC left them waiting in the dark for 3 hours due to the fact they had dogs with them, subsequently the motor home was struck by a lorry and reduced to matchsticks, three of the dogs are now dead and three were running loose on the motorway.

Please check that your breakdown recovery arrangements are adequate should you break down with your dogs in the vehicle.

I really feel for those involved who were lucky enough to survive the ordeal, and heartened that word was spread quickly and doggy people turned out to help search for the missing dogs who are now thankfully accounted for.
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23-11-2013, 07:42 PM
None of the rescue services will guarantee picking up dogs, the best they say is it's down to individual rescue persons to decide. Few will take uncrated dogs that cannot sit on your lap and expect the dog to stay in the vehicle while it is towed or recovered on a truck.

Been there done that and decided if it ever happens again will try to get a taxi home as it was such a worry to leave them in a campervan on the back of a pick up truck.

Terrible consequences of this incident I hope the service who made them wait so long feel very bad about what they have caused.
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23-11-2013, 08:04 PM
This was so sad and unnecessary.
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23-11-2013, 08:05 PM
They should feel bad, a young lady is in intensive care and three dogs are dead, the dogs running loose on a motorway could have caused further fatalities.
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23-11-2013, 08:10 PM
The hard shoulder on a motorway is a frightening place to be. I can never understand people just standing by the side of their vehicle, in essence they are causing a distraction to drivers. I'd be up the top of the bank with my dogs and passengers.
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23-11-2013, 08:36 PM
The police advise that you leave the dogs in the vehicle, probably so they don't escape. Scary place to get them out of vehicle.
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23-11-2013, 08:43 PM
Made even more tragic by the fact that it could have been avoided
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23-11-2013, 09:05 PM
Have you got a link to where you saw this story? Is it this one? Where it says
Several dogs escaped onto a motorway after a motorhome broken down on the hardshoulder was hit by a lorry. ... The motorhome contained 12 dogs and three people
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...to-escape.html

I'm not clear about it at all but it seems it is up to the recovery firm to decide whether to move a vehicle with animals in it. So therefore doesn't matter WHAT your insurance pol. says?

I'm wondering - I doubt they were crated - wouldn't get 12 crates in there. And maybe it's because they could hardly leave the vehicle at a breakdown garage with all the dogs in it. But it could surely have been taken off the motorway.

I do know that if Rescue Recovery comes out they will often leave some of the passengers behind to make their own way if they have a vehicle that only takes 2 and there are more than two passengers. Their main business is, after all, to recover VEHICLES, not people or dogs.

Seems the dogs were Corgis (found some more links now) and the ones that were killed were killed in the crash when the lorry hit them.

Just one point I would make is that even if you don't have dogs and are not on a motorway it is not uncommon to wait MANY HOURS for breakdown to turn up. I have. More than 3 hours when in London - hardly in the middle of nowhere.

The most frequent complaint about recovery services is long wait times at the call centre, and even longer waits for a vehicle to come out.
And RAC have issued this statement:
'We had despatched a specialist recovery vehicle to attend, but unfortunately the accident occurred while the vehicle was en route to the scene.'
Here's the AA advice about breaking down on a motorway (I seemed to remember that the advice is get OUT of the vehicle so I looked it up)

If an emergency forces you to stop:

*Pull on to the hard shoulder and stop as far to the left as possible with the wheels turned to the left.
*Leave your sidelights on and turn on the hazard warning lights.
*Get out of the vehicle by the left-hand door and make sure that all your passengers do the same.
*Leave animals in the vehicle or, in an emergency, keep them under proper control on the verge.

*If you have reflective jackets in the vehicle wear them. Do not use a warning triangle on the hard shoulder.
*make sure that passengers keep away from the carriageway and hard shoulder, and that children are kept under control. It is best to retreat up the bank, or behind a barrier if this is possible.
In fact they go on to say that if you do have to return to the vehicle for any reason to leave it again as soon as possible.
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23-11-2013, 09:15 PM
That is the one. The young lady has a broken leg, collapsed lung and three fractured vertebrae, three dogs are dead, a corgi, toy poodle and a puppy chinese crested, one dog has a broken leg, a fellow doggy person picked up one of the escapees and the last one was caught several hours later.

Why three hours in the dark, surely they should have responded and got all to safety much much sooner. We all need to think on and make sure we have adequate cover for our circumstances.
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23-11-2013, 09:31 PM
Originally Posted by moetmum View Post
That is the one. The young lady has a broken leg, collapsed lung and three fractured vertebrae, three dogs are dead, a corgi, toy poodle and a puppy chinese crested, one dog has a broken leg, a fellow doggy person picked up one of the escapees and the last one was caught several hours later.

Why three hours in the dark, surely they should have responded and got all to safety much much sooner. We all need to think on and make sure we have adequate cover for our circumstances.
As I said above - 3 hours is not uncommon. We used to joke that 24hr recovery means that's how long it might take them to get to you. And that was the AA.

But all the advice is not to stay in the vehicle if you have to stop on a motorway.

The lorry that hit them was out of control and jacknifed. There's nothing to say it couldn't have happened while a recovery vehicle was in attendance.

And most recovery vehicles are set up to recover cars. This was a motorhome and it did have a large number of animals on board. RAC says it was sending out a 'specialist recovery vehicle'.

3 adults and 12 dogs? They aren't all going to fit in the recovery vehicle are they? I think this is a tragic accident and it is lucky that no humans were killed. But I don't really think the blame lies with the recovery company.
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