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Calls for average speed cameras to be installed on an "infamous" New Forest road following the deaths of four ponies have been rejected.

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FOUR ponies have become the latest casualties to die on a New Forest Road. Police were called to reports of a single-vehicle crash on the B0379 near Brook on New Year’s Eve at around 9.15pm involving a Land Rover Discovery, which had collided with the animals. Hampshire Constabulary says the driver of the vehicle was spoken to at the scene, and “having carried out a thorough investigation, no further action was taken against them”. Korine Bishop, Hampshire Constabulary Rural Policing Inspector, said: “This was a tragic incident which resulted in the death of four New Forest ho...

HIGHWAY chiefs are being urged to halt the “carnage” occurring in the New Forest after an horrific accident in which four ponies were killed. The collision - one of the worst animal accidents in the Forest for several years - happened on a notorious stretch of Roger Penny Way near Bramshaw. The ponies are thought to have been licking freshly-laid salt on the road when they were hit by a Land Rover Discovery. Two other accidents have occurred on Roger Penny Way in the past few weeks. Three donkeys were killed on December 13 and two sheep died in a hit-and-run on December 28.

HIGHWAY chiefs are being urged to halt the "carnage" occurring in the New Forest after an horrific accident in which four ponies were killed. The collision - one of the worst animal accidents in the Forest for several years - occurred on a notorious stretch of Roger Penny Way near Bramshaw. The ponies are thought to have been licking freshly-laid salt on the road when they were hit by a Land Rover Discovery. Two other accidents have occurred on Roger Penny Way in the past few weeks. Three donkeys were killed on December 13 and two sheep died in a hit-and-run on December 28.