A COMMUTER in the New Forest is pleading for better enforcements of slower driving after she saw a dead horse in the road with its foal looking on.

Bernadette Sims, a veterinary nurse at Alderholt, contacted the Daily Echo after hearing of the two pet donkeys killed near Dibden Purlieu earlier this week.

She was travelling along Roger Penny Way, between Fordingbridge and Cadnam, on Tuesday morning when she saw the dead horse.

A foal was seen stood over it, she said, while a herd was seen nearby, prompting Ms Sims to call for more to be done to reduce the speed on Forest roads.

“You see that sight you’re going to slow down,” she said.

“I just think something needs to be done.

“There were three looking on, at a respectful distance away. I find it awful and I’m in the veterinary world.

“I’ve been using that road since I was 17 and I have never seen anything quite so heart-wrenching.

“It hits home how much this shouldn’t happen.”

It is another case of an animal having been killed on rural roads in the New Forest after Sarah Rangecroft reported two pet donkeys - one belonging to her son and another to her nephew - were killed in a hit-and-run incident on Saturday night.