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A motorist has been slammed for travelling at 110km/h on a highway while their pet dog was inside the back of a ute.
The dangerous moment was spotted by another driver on a freeway in Sydney recently.
The motorist uploaded a picture of the risky act to reddit last Thursday showing the pooch peeking over the back of the ute tray.
‘Can somebody driving at 110km/h on a highway keep the dog in an open boot?’ the person asked in their post.
The post was flooded with hundreds of comments from social media users, who were divided over the move.
‘I saw a dog like this on a below 10 [degree] day, slight rain with a cable tie around its mouth. Don’t have a dog if you can’t treat it properly,’ one person wrote.
‘I’ve seen a dog jump out of a ute only to be dragged under the wheel when they reached the end of the chain,’ another person wrote.
Others defended pet owners and said dogs should be allowed to travel in the back of utes if drivers ensure that it is safe for them to do so.
The motorist uploaded a picture of the risky act to social media last Thursday showing the pooch peeking over the back of the ute tray in a vehicle travelling at 110km/h (pictured)
‘As long as they’re restrained and the weather isn’t hot, and of course they’re comfortable, this isn’t bad or cruel necessarily,’ one person wrote.
‘You think dogs fair much better inside the vehicle where there isn’t even a requirement to restrain them and they become a projectile in a crash?’ another person argued.
Motorists in NSW must ensure pets are safely restrained if travelling in the back of a ute.
Drivers will face fines and a possible jail sentence if they fail to keep their pet safe.
‘Consider safely restraining your dog in the cabin of your ute or open vehicle with a safety-belt restraint as this is generally safer, especially in the case of an accident,’ the RSPCA advises.
Motorists are urged to ensure the safety belt is long enough to allow their dogs to stand or lie down, but not too long as this could allow the dog to jump or fall off.
A driver divided social media users last year after he was spotted travelling on the Pacific Motorway near the Gold Coast with his dog strapped to the back of his ute.
‘Can’t they just let their dog ride shotgun like a normal Australian,’ one person wrote.
‘If the dog is tethered to the centre [of the cabin] and the driver is driving normally and responsibly, I don’t think its a problem,’ another user wrote.
A driver divided social media users last year after he was spotted travelling on the Pacific Motorway on the Gold Coast with his dog strapped to the back of his ute (pictured)
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