Driver Blamed for Hitting Cows on Road at Night

[XB GS 351 Coupe]

Love how a lot of people blame the farmer instead of having the driver take responsibility for his driving. He had plenty of clear and obvious warning, and was driving too fast for the conditions. I know the road well and travelled it many times.

The old blame someone else for your stupidity game that is so common these days.

What if you were the farmer, and some moron (trespasser/illegal hunter/kids, etc) left the gate open and you get blamed for this?? no farmer would put their expensive livestock at risk. We recently had an idiot P plater go through a paddock fence letting hundred of sheep out, said P plater fled the scene, 3 months later there are still 30 sheep missing, we did find the P plater, was easy to spot the damage on his car in a small town...

We have a horse kept in paddock on the edge of town, recently I was sitting on my front veranda on a Sunday arvo with a cold beverage when all of a sudden our horse comes trotting down the main street of town. Lucky nothing happened and we caught him without incident, upon inspecting the paddock some kids (we found out who and they came and apologised) took a short cut through the paddock and left the gate open.

No one is more upset than the farmer when his stock turns to road kill.