Nigel Age 54 Staffordshire Beef Farmer
Cattle attacks: far more common than you think.
This page has proved to be one of the most popular pages on this blog. When I started it, I had no idea there were so many people out with a horror story about dangerous cattle, about serious injuries, and about terrifying near misses.
So, a small group of us have got together (calling ourselves COWS – Cattle on Walkers Safety) and we've started a new blog devoted to the topic. www.killercows.co.uk
- Please read the rest of the information on this page, and have a look at the comments and discussions that follow.
- Then head over to www.killercows.co.uk and join us.
This is the original page about cattle attacks:
I'm not fond of cattle. Not when they're on my side of the fence. They're big and scary. But anyone who walks in the countryside knows we have to put up with the creatures and I've tried to reduce my anxiety by thinking about how unlikely it is to be hurt by one of them.
Cows do, however, kill 5 or 6 people every year in the UK. Most of the deaths are farm workers, which is bad enough, but sometimes walkers are killed too. And for every person killed, many more are seriously injured.
In January 2016, a study was published by the BMJ journal Injury Prevention, 'Are cattle dangerous to walkers? A scoping review'.This discovered 54 reported attacks on walkers in the UK countryside during the past 20 years, 13 of which were fatal. Dogs were involved in 2/3 of cattle attacks. Which, of course, means that 1/3 of attacks involve walkers without dogs.
Sometimes a farmer is prosecuted when a walker is killed by his cattle and, occasionally, the prosecution is successful. For example, in 2016 Farmer Brian Godwin was fined £30,000 for "being in breech of his general duty of controlling livestock" and given a 12 month suspended sentence. Only his age (83) saved him from imprisonment. You might consider his punishment lenient, seeing as the same herd of cattle had attacked walkers on 4 previous occasions. Source: The Telegraph 6th Dec 2016.
I've decided to collect stories of cow attacks in the UK, using the Google Alert facility and random internet searches. If you know of any recent reports not listed below, please let me know. Dates in red indicate fatalities.
16th Sept 2017: Sharyn Partridge, butted to the ground by a cow, Devon.
August 2017: Clive Pattison, left with a broken wrist, charged by cow near Tavistock.
31st July 2017: Brian Swales, trampled and killed by his bull, N Yorks.
12th June 2017: Brian Bellhouse, killed walking in a field in East Sussex.
4th June 2017: Woman seriously injured by cow, Manchester.
1st June 2017: Saffron Anderson, trampled and injured, Isle of White.
May 2017: Carol Green, knocked down and bruised by cows, Essex.
May 2017: Jacqui Beale, seriously injured by 8 cows, Derbyshire
1st May 2017: Alistair Maclean, killed by a bull in his Scottish croft.
13th April 2017 : Eric Coates, dairy farmer, Settle, killed by recently calved cow.
August 2016: Mike Pace, trampled and left with serious leg injuries. Abersoch, Wales.
20th June 2016 : Thomas Macfarlane, farm worker, killed by cattle. HSE statistics
13th June 2016: A 'hormonal' cow attacking women in colourful clothing in Cambridge.
10th June 2016: Two dog walkers injured in Sussex
19th May 2016: Woman feared her husband was killed, Tutbury, Staffordshire.
3rd April 2016 : Marian Clode killed by cow, Belford, Northumberland.
March 2016: Cow attack witnessed in TripAdvisor review, Gribbin Head, Cornwall.
4th March 2016: Farmer, Kerr Sands, attacked by cow, Balbeggie, Scotland.
Do you want to report an incident with cows? Or to find out more about cattle attacks?
Please head over to killercows.co.uk and join us.
Source: https://coastalwalker.co.uk/killer-cattle/
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