On: Health risks of travel in early-modern Britain

[lazide]

Also, even the sketchiest car is far more predictable than a cranky or barn sour horse.

[hutzlibu → lazide]

I had a brake failure once (which did not caused damage due to luck and reaction). It was a old car, but it was checked before.

[lazide → hutzlibu]

That’s pretty hard to do. Out of curiosity - how old, and how did the brakes fail?

[hutzlibu → lazide]

20 years old and the break strings(?) just snapped. I suppose the mechanic did a sloppy job before (never went there again).

It was flat where it happened, but we have mamy quite steep roads here as well. So could have ended badly. (So it was just a allmost crash)

[AlbertCory → lazide]

By contrast, the sketchiest horse will avoid collisions with other horses.

[defrost → AlbertCory]

For the record, the sketchiest horse will suddenly kick out hard at the head height of a 12 year old if they approach it 'wrong' (that's a dice roll).

Horses are more dangerous than you might credit them to be.

[AlbertCory → defrost]

Granted. The claim was only about other-horse collisions.