category for horse and buggy crashes

Question

I recently discovered Category: Accidental Deaths and its subcategories. There are currently 1137 profiles in that category and 23 subcategories for specific kinds of deaths such as "Motor Vehicle Accidents" and "Horseback Riding Accidents". In reviewing profiles in local cemeteries and extended family, I've seen four or five people who died from road accidents in a horse and cart/buggy/trap.

Should these just be generic "accidental deaths" or should we have a specific horse-drawn road vehicle crashes/accidents category?

My examples (if I can find them again) include several where the driver lost control of the vehicle/horse and crashed,one fell from a moving cart and was crushed under it, one attempted driving through floodwater and was washed away.

Roberts-52580, Roberts-29574, Whittaker-3823 (I've forgotten the name of the person who drove into floodwater)

Comments

Our area has many horse and car accidents with the Amish on the roads.  Would that be in your proposed category?

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I hadn't thought of that - all my current examples are single (horse-drawn) vehicle incidents. Perhaps they should be in both the horse-drawn and motorised road crashes, or another category again?

I very rarely see horse-drawn vehicles other than at special events. I didn't see any in my short visits to Pennsylvania and northern New York. I live in South Australia.

Answer 1

I don't actually see the point of creating such a category.  Accidental deaths has a whole bunch of sub-categories that are covering all sorts of causes, but how useful most of them are I am scratching my head about.  I can see things like rail and plane crashes being useful, since in one event many can be killed, but accidents while riding a horse, or having a tree fall on them, it's like, what is the point of linking them under a category?  Such can happen all over the planet, being disrelated incidents.

Comments

I could not agree more.

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It looks like "not needed" is the consensus answer. Thank you to those who engaged. I found it interesting that I found a number of horse-drawn crashes that correspond to modern motor vehicle crashes - lost control of the vehicle, washed away attempting to cross a flooded river etc.