Merrick
Active Member
This may be in the wrong place ( apologies if so!) but I wanted to warn owners of an awful incident that happened locally yesterday. A friend of ours was bedding her horses down before getting them in, and her grandson (10 months old) was asleep in his pushchair inside the barn. They have internal stables built of heavy concrete blocks ( not breezeblocks)
A section of wall completely gave way and fell onto the baby in his pushchair, in one piece.
Amazingly there are no broken bones, a nice thick cosy toes and strong buggy have saved this little boys life. He spent the night in hospital but was discharged today.
It could so easily have been a tragedy, had the pushchair been further forward it would have been his head it hit, which doesn't bear thinking about. It was so heavy it had to be demolished today to remove it :/
Please check all walls and doors for stability, there wasn't even a horse in the barn at the time and the owner is wisely having these walls removed and replaced with wooden partition type walls.
I have heard about horses being fatally injured when walls are loosened by horses rubbing and pushing them over, to lose a horse is one thing, to lose a baby or child is another completely.
A section of wall completely gave way and fell onto the baby in his pushchair, in one piece.
Amazingly there are no broken bones, a nice thick cosy toes and strong buggy have saved this little boys life. He spent the night in hospital but was discharged today.
It could so easily have been a tragedy, had the pushchair been further forward it would have been his head it hit, which doesn't bear thinking about. It was so heavy it had to be demolished today to remove it :/
Please check all walls and doors for stability, there wasn't even a horse in the barn at the time and the owner is wisely having these walls removed and replaced with wooden partition type walls.
I have heard about horses being fatally injured when walls are loosened by horses rubbing and pushing them over, to lose a horse is one thing, to lose a baby or child is another completely.
