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<blockquote data-quote="504RP" data-source="post: 1689201" data-attributes="member: 40335"><p>It depends alot where your located and road conditions I guess. In Arkansas if you were to draw an imaginary line running North and South in about the middle of the State. 90 % of all road ways West of that line are very curvy, lots of hills, unreal traffic on even secondary roads. Very common to see deer, dogs, coons, cats all kinds of animals that has been ran over.</p><p></p><p>Personally know of several cow/horse car accidents too in these areas that have been hit by a car/truck. And even predistrians ran over. Month or so ago a man laying in an off ramp at I40 was run over.</p><p></p><p>Beleave it or not they are alot of buzzards ran over too. Hit one myself a few years back with the wind shield of my truck.</p><p></p><p>You can't compare areas like this to places like Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and other states with vast wide open prairies or hwys that you can drive 50 to 100 miles without ever coming to a curve in the road. Maybe not a dozen or so cars pass every hour or so.</p><p></p><p>Thats why some states can have open range laws and others can't.</p><p></p><p>The whole state of Arkansas doesn't have open range laws. They do have laws in effect where cattle farmers are liable for their cattle out on public roads highways etc..., althogh i don't know of any place that inforces thoes laws.</p><p></p><p>Most people i am guessing even know these laws exist but they do. And could easily sue and win in court damages or held responsible for someone killed over their cows being out on state road ways.</p><p></p><p>Learned this from the State senator himself. Showed me where to find the laws for me to read.</p><p></p><p>I have cattle. Ocassionly over the years have a some get out and on state roads. I got them back in my pastures, lucky no body hit one. If they had of they could have sued me even though it only happened that one time.</p><p></p><p>Know of places where cattle are on the roads all the time. One place is where i found a car flipped on it's side that had a 23 year old Mother of 3 baby's dead inside the car.</p><p></p><p>6 months prior to her wreck directly across the hwy from where she was killed the fence was down for a 1/4 of a mile. </p><p></p><p> One night on my way home there were a dozen cows in the hwy at that spot. Had been several times before. I called the sheriff's office everytime I came up on them. Got to the point sheriff's deputies wouldn't come out. So i started calling the State police. One night when that trooper got there. The cows walked out of the hwy stepped over the 5 strain barb wire fence that was only about a foot high. And had been down so long that grass had covered up the fence for a quarter of a mile.</p><p></p><p>And this stretch of hwy is heavily traveled. In that same stretch of hwy a school bus in front of me locked its breaks up and black smoke boiled up. Am sure it throwed the kids around in the bus some what. Looked up and there were several cows in the hwy.</p><p></p><p>Some people shouldn't be allowed to own cattle if they are that irresponsible. Yes cows are going to get out sometimes. But when a 1/4 of fence on a major hwy is left in attended for as long as that one was is not just neglect but irresponsible on the land owners part.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="504RP, post: 1689201, member: 40335"] It depends alot where your located and road conditions I guess. In Arkansas if you were to draw an imaginary line running North and South in about the middle of the State. 90 % of all road ways West of that line are very curvy, lots of hills, unreal traffic on even secondary roads. Very common to see deer, dogs, coons, cats all kinds of animals that has been ran over. Personally know of several cow/horse car accidents too in these areas that have been hit by a car/truck. And even predistrians ran over. Month or so ago a man laying in an off ramp at I40 was run over. Beleave it or not they are alot of buzzards ran over too. Hit one myself a few years back with the wind shield of my truck. You can't compare areas like this to places like Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and other states with vast wide open prairies or hwys that you can drive 50 to 100 miles without ever coming to a curve in the road. Maybe not a dozen or so cars pass every hour or so. Thats why some states can have open range laws and others can't. The whole state of Arkansas doesn't have open range laws. They do have laws in effect where cattle farmers are liable for their cattle out on public roads highways etc..., althogh i don't know of any place that inforces thoes laws. Most people i am guessing even know these laws exist but they do. And could easily sue and win in court damages or held responsible for someone killed over their cows being out on state road ways. Learned this from the State senator himself. Showed me where to find the laws for me to read. I have cattle. Ocassionly over the years have a some get out and on state roads. I got them back in my pastures, lucky no body hit one. If they had of they could have sued me even though it only happened that one time. Know of places where cattle are on the roads all the time. One place is where i found a car flipped on it's side that had a 23 year old Mother of 3 baby's dead inside the car. 6 months prior to her wreck directly across the hwy from where she was killed the fence was down for a 1/4 of a mile. One night on my way home there were a dozen cows in the hwy at that spot. Had been several times before. I called the sheriff's office everytime I came up on them. Got to the point sheriff's deputies wouldn't come out. So i started calling the State police. One night when that trooper got there. The cows walked out of the hwy stepped over the 5 strain barb wire fence that was only about a foot high. And had been down so long that grass had covered up the fence for a quarter of a mile. And this stretch of hwy is heavily traveled. In that same stretch of hwy a school bus in front of me locked its breaks up and black smoke boiled up. Am sure it throwed the kids around in the bus some what. Looked up and there were several cows in the hwy. Some people shouldn't be allowed to own cattle if they are that irresponsible. Yes cows are going to get out sometimes. But when a 1/4 of fence on a major hwy is left in attended for as long as that one was is not just neglect but irresponsible on the land owners part. [/QUOTE]
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