Girl suffers head injury in fall on Scottish beach
A 12-year-old girl was flown to hospital with serious head injuries after falling from a horse on a beach in North Berwick on Tuesday (14 July).
An RAF rescue team was scrambled to a private beach at Seacliff, where local papers say an East Lothian Pony Club event was taking place, and the girl was flown to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh.
The child has not been named and the district commissioner of the Pony Club branch was not available to discuss the incident with H&H.
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.