Dad injured and kids 'traumatised' after terrifying ordeal with lorry driver and family horses

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An Airdrie man has told how his shoulder was broken after a road rage altercation with a lorry driver while he exercised horses alongside his young family.Edward Henderson had been travelling on the main A89 in Caldercruix with two horses and a cart last Friday afternoon when he says the large vehicle attempted to overtake inappropriately – and then struck him as he stood in the roadway attempting to manoeuvre into the family farm.He says he and his two children are “traumatised” by the incident, and is now calling for warning signs to be put in place on the road to remind drivers of the speed limit and to take care around similarly vulnerable road users.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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As they came to the end of a circuit around Plains and Caldercruix, they were travelling back along Airdrie Road and preparing to turn into their home at Rockbank Farm when he says they were subjected to abuse from the driver of a lorry as he then attempted to pass the group.

He said: “We’d moved out to overtake a parked car at the side of the road and I’d jumped down from the cart and was standing on the white line, to help as