A man was airlifted to hospital with head injuries yesterday morning after being tramped by a cow at the Devil’s Dyke.
The road up to the National Trust beauty spot was closed for about an hour from the Dyke Road roundabout after the incident, which happened shortly after 9am.
The patient, an adult male, was treated at the scene for injuries to his head and thorax before being taken by the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance to the Royal Sussex Hospital.
A spokesman for South East Coast Ambulance Service said: “We were called shortly after 9am to reports of a person had been trampled by a cow.
“Ambulance crews and the air ambulance service attended the scene and the patient, who had suffered injuries including a head injury, was assessed and treated before being airlifted to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.”
⚠ Due to an incident, our #BH77 service cannot get up to Devil’s Dyke. The 10:30 service will only go as far as the Dyke Road roundabout, ⚠
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Brighton and Hove News understands the accident happened on land in between Devil’s Dyke Farm and Truleigh Hill, which is owned by the National Trust.
this happened 3 yrs ago SAME place to a lady walking alone.
AGAIN?! Were no lessons learned from the previous trampling three years ago?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-27678729
Was it the same cows?
Did the cows have calfs with them? If so nobody should go into such a field as the mother cows will get very aggressive.
The mother cows, as opposed to the father cows?
That would be a cow that, probably, at some point has been forcibly impregnated (raped), made to bear calves which were then forcibly taken from her so that humans can have the milk meant for them. Her calves would have been killed for meat for humans. She may well be kept indoors in the dark and a confined space for the whole of winter. So trampled on one human? We’re lucky they don’t trample on all of us. Time to stop treating animals like this.
It won’t, it will be a cow protecting its young.
Cows by definition are female. Yes, it would most probably been a mother with calf or mothers with calves.
They will collectively chase anything they see as a threat, even more so if you have a dog with you.
Looked up this story after a scary experience. Having a sit down for a moment on devils dyke to find a literal stampede of 60 odd cows roght at us. Did our best to hide behind a tree whilst kicking cows galloped full speed down hill to our left and right inches away. Cant believe it but curious if any other experiences like this out there? Also cant help but think more dogs should be kept on leads as it cant help !