Woman hospitalised after being crushed by horse in horsebox
A woman was taken to hospital after being crushed by a horse inside a horsebox.
The horsebox was travelling on the westbound carriageway of the M54, between junctions 1 and 2 in Wolverhampton.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the woman, who was in the horsebox in a layby, at about 10.20am on Monday, 1 December.
Police could not confirm whether or not she had been in the horsebox with the horse when the vehicle was moving.
The injured woman, who is thought to have been from Newmarket, was taken to New Cross Hospital with broken ribs.
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A graduate of Exeter University, Amy joined our news team from Redpin Publishing in 2008 as news writer. She was promoted to deputy news editor in May 2013 and became news editor in April 2015. She left Horse & Hound in March 2016 to take up an editorial position in Dubai.