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Woman suffers two broken legs when horse bolts on horse tram (Middeton Ry, Leeds UK)

28-08-2013 8:47pm

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MGWR

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Yorkshire Evening Post

An animal trainer who suffered two broken legs is recovering in hospital after she became trapped under a three-tonne horse-drawn tram.

Firefighters rushed to Middleton Railway, in Moor Road, Hunslet, where the 46-year-old was dragged under the tram by her legs when a horse she was guiding bolted on Monday shortly after 3pm.

The trainer, who works for Tong-based Hanson Carriage Hire, was guiding horses as they pulled the Leeds Horse Car 107, which was being relaunched after an eight-year £45,000 restoration by Leeds Transport Historical Society (LTHS), at the showpiece of the railway’s Festival of Transport. ...

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#2 29-08-2013 7:40am

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nasty...

Middleton Railway...world's oldest railway I believe...opened in 1758 and still open

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#3 29-08-2013 11:22pm

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Ouch!

For a moment I was wondering what 'horse bolts' were.

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