Sorry if this is a re-post

[Ranyhyn]

RIP Jade - so terribly sad
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...eath-somersaulting-horse-riding-accident.html

 

[flintmeg]

OMG thats awful RIP Jade, my thoughts are with her family, so tragic.

 

[paddi22]

how tragic..poor girl and her family.

i dont understand what they mean when they say the fence wasn't secured to the ground? wouldn't the horse still have tripped even if it was solid?

 

[galaxy]

another tragedy...

My heart goes out to her family, the other teenagers in her PC ride and the instructor. As an instructor myself I cannot imagine how horrific that would be.

 

[alfiesmum]

total shame, that was a report of the inquest. it tragically happened in 2008

 

[LadyRascasse]

from what i can gather from the report, it is a XC fence with should be secured to the ground, the horse hit it which jumped up into the air causing the pair to somersault. nasty accident RIP Jade

 

[Ranyhyn]

Agreed, I thought that a solid fence was more likely to cause a rotational fall than anything else, hence the use of frangible pins to make them fall apart on impact? Someone like Kerilli would be useful here..