What's been your worst riding accident?

After 30 years riding and aged 41 I got bucked off in February down the field whilst mounting to ride him up to the yard and he had a bucking fit. I was spun off the side onto my shoulder. Broke my collar bone. Spent nine weeks in a sling and then had to have it plated. Am now almost 5 months down the line and out of my sling but arm still not fully useable. Have been told not to ride until at least October, which I am taking notice of.
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My worst accident would have to be a broken hip. Still playing havoc with me as got 3 pins in it but they have slightly moved away from the bone and the muscle in my leg keeps moving over them so keep feeling them.

Just coming up to 2 year anniversary, the 2 years being the high risk window, so feeling confident, fingers crossed, that I don't need my hip replaced.

Previously also had a broken jaw after being hit in the face with a hoof and needing it wired for 6 weeks with nothing but liquidised food to eat.

Also had concussions and broken toes but they seem irrelevant in comparison.
 
God i thought mine was bad until i read some of these!
An old horse of mine decided to go from very calm walking through a field to a compleate nutter in a split second, he wizzed around bucked and i ended up sanding on his bum and being bucked off again, and falling on to hard tractor ruts and waking my knee, which has had to be opperated on since, and breaking a bone in my neck, and slipping 3 discs, needles to say i sold that horse very shortly aferwards!
 
Thankfully none of mine so far have been serious, although cumulatively they've given me a prolapsed disc and chronic back pain. Just lots of minor falls where I tend to fall on coccyx/arse really!
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Broken both little toes and sprained both wrists over the years too.
 
Ha ha - oops I was soo not concentrating then was I - think I was so shocked by that! Oh, and had started on the wine! In that case OMG JM07!!!!
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Bloody hell you lot!!!

Mine was 8 years ago yesterday - a cob I was riding for the owner bolted out of a bridleway onto a busy main road. We were hit by a car where the horse went into the bonnet / through the windscreen and I went flying over the top of the car.

Somehow, my chinstrap snapped and when I hit the road 30ft further down I was no longer wearing it!!!

I compressed three vertebrae in my back which, aside from taking 3 years to persuade the doctors that something was amiss, still needs regular osteopathy now... I also ripped my leg open and lost 5 of the 8 pints of blood that we carry in our body's. (and broke several minor bones in the process).

I needed an air ambulance to hospital as (to quote the paramedic) "she won't make it in a road vehicle, the blood loss is to fast".
These were the first words I heard after coming round - not a good sentence for anyone, let alone a 15 year old...

I now have a huge scar that resembles some form of shark attack and another where the surgeon's 'cheese grated' my leg for a skin graft - needless to say, my right leg now stays covered 95% of the time...

Unfortunately, the cob had to be put down at the scene with a shattered fetlock joint - he wasn't mine but I loved him as if he was, he was a quirky fella and that's why we got on so well...!!

I am however, still riding / backing / breaking and competing and would never be without my horses!!
 
horse was spooked by a low flying jet, he bolted and I was knocked unconcious when he dumped me out the side exit.

Got deposited me onto a 44 gallon oil drum breaking 3 ribs.

broke 6 bones in my foot, including my big toe (still painfull to this day) by horse stamping on it in a temper.

All of these were done by the same youngster in the space of 1 year!! 9 years on I still have him and love him to bits, despite all the pain he has caused!!
 
Well after being totally accident free for 10 years + despite having a hot ex racer that I used to love creaming up mountains on in Cyprus.....I moved to Holland and took an ex racer on loan. Lovely horse but it had a tendancy to nap and if pushed too far rear....lovely.

I was out hacking one day with a friend and I can only go by what I am told happened as I have no recollection of the events at all....Apparantly he heard a noise in a bush reared and spun.....I turned him back and we carried on for a few paces where he then reared again spun and took off like [****] off a shovel in a full racing gallop.

According to my friend I was at one point leaning out of the saddle with his off side bit ring in my hand trying to pull him round......we were fast approaching a small canal on the other side of which was a busy road and apparantly as he gathered to jump it I bailed out....hit the ground with my shoulder.....bounced....hit again with my hip......bounced....knee.....bounced.....foot.....bounced then rolled into the canal.....the horse misjudged its jump and landed in the canal a matter of feet away from me.

I woke up in a helicoptor with a very nice man who I alledgedly punched as he attempted to get a line in to give me some fluids!

I had a broken shoulder, collarbone, fractured hip, fracturred knee and broken ankle......I lost the sight in one eye for 3 weeks and then the only way I could stop seeing double was to close it for another month.

And yep I was riding again on my friends plod of a fresian on a lead rope as soon as I could get the level of pain meds right so it was not excruitating......

My OH who is not really horsey......was horrified
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I was doing gridwork with Ellie during a lesson - it was just after we'd done so well at Stoneleigh and she was jumping her socks off! Anyway, my instructor had set up a line of three bounce fences, only diddy ones, and Ellie got a bit brave going into it and tried to take on two at the same time, like a spread fence
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She landed on the back bar and somersaulted over, proving that Jump4Joy poles CAN be broken
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I ended up somewhere underneath her but was thankfully knocked out for a moment or two, and when I did open my eyes, she was scrambling, intact, to her feet and I just had a broken hand!

My instructor made me get back on and jump a fence with my wrist dangling, to make sure I didnt lose my nerve
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It didnt work though; after soldiering on shakily for another 9 months or so, I gave up SJing altogether
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Oh the most awful thing happened at polo a couple of months ago. We were playing a totally ordinary chukka, when a guy fell off his horse. It wasnt a major fall - his horse fell down too though. He stood up, looking pretty unscathed, then his horse leapt up and knocked him to the ground, and he landed on his side hitting his head on the floor (of the school)

He was unconcious and had blood coming out of his mouth and ears. He was rushed to hospital and was in a coma for about a week. When he came round, he could barely speak, and when he could he said he never wanted to see the club or his horses ever again.

He continued like this for several months - selling his business and his horses. He became very stressed and angry at everything.

He has been to the club recently, and watched a match, but he will never enjoy it again.

The saddest thing was that he hated his horses so much after it - and it seemed like such a small accident that has had a profound impact on his life.
 
not exactly the most horrifying fall or anything, kinda pathetic tbh but ohwell
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three years ago I was riding at my old riding stables on this pony & we were cantering in a field in a large circle sorta thing, and the horse suddenly (for no apparant reason) slipped onto his left side, squishing me underneath him. horse got up fine straightaway and i then stood up, grabbed the horse and began walking over to a block to stand on to get back on.. walked all the way over to the block with horse in tow and fainted when i got there :L turns out i'd broken the bones in my foot (sounds pathetic but i had to have a full blown cast for 2 months). but strangely my biggest disappointment was the fact i couldnt go to badminton for the day
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my sister and dad still went along though, i was so angry :L lol.
but since then i havent fallen off at all, in 3 years. im pretty chuffed with myself ^^ especially cos' before then i fell off practically every week :L
 
I broke my neck and back when I was 14. I was jumping by myself in a field practising jumping dog legs. My horse jumped the first part to big and didn't have room to put in any strides (supposed to have 2 strides) and bless her she tried to bounce it and launched me over her head straight on to my head. I was found by my mum about 2 hrs later with my horse still standing right next to me. I was told I couldn't ride again but I am and loving it (but not right now as I have a broken arm I'm accident prone)
 
Am currently sitting with my lower leg in a cast, as I broke my fibula in a fall 2 weeks ago today. Now have metal plated leg.

The accident was just that. Simply cantering, horse going really well, but horse put his foot on a thistle and his leg slid along the stalk of the thistle (evidence is still there!), horse fell on his side trapping my leg underneath.

Thankfully, the horse was fine, and also thankfully my OH saw it all happen so I wasn't alone.

Am now just going stir crazy as will be missing the best of the summer riding months and all of my plans for this season have been scuppered.

Definitely not lost confidence though, as can't wait to get back in the saddle, hopefully by the end of August.

Other worst accident was about 5 years ago when a horse (not mine) reared and went over backwards. I stayed in the saddle so long that I was virtually upside down when my shoulder hit the ground. That time I broke my clavicle (collar bone) and had to have it plated.
 
I was lunging my three year old 17.hh youngster when I looked over my shoulder to someone calling to me, as I did this I accidently let the lunge line slip through my fingers. My horse was cantering round loosely after having been in his Pessoa training aid, and was just letting off a bit of steam. When he realised he was being pursued by a blue lunge line he went mental and proceeded to gallop round the outdoor school like a lunatic, screaming to the other horses in the field. One corner of the school was a bit broken down and I realised he was going to jump it with the lunge line hanging. I thought he was going to be badly injured as the drop outside the sand school was about 3 ft. As he stood rearing and pawing at the rope I grabbed the end, whereupon he went from 0 to 60 mph from a standstill and jumped the fence out of the sandschool and catapulted me about 3 ft in the air ( I did not have time to let go of rope it happened so fast), where I landed awkwardly (the force of the acceleration being equivalent to that of a head on car collision so the surgeon said), smashing my pelvis and requiring 2 plates and nine titanium pins to hold it all together plus 4 months in a wheelchair.
I lost my job, lost my horse (had to sell him - he was completely unhurt) and as a consequence lost contact with all my family too, who regarded me as a liability due to my disablement (some family eh?).

I think I have a very short memory or am going senile as I have just bought another youngster!
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Collided with a fence, beginning of April this year, broke my talus, am still limping now and not yet allowed to ride or drive......and i never break the rules
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Yep and the realy scary thing is most of us are on serious accident 2 or 3 and are still not put off.

My Husband reckons I am certifiable
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I have had lots of falls but touch wood nothing too serious. The funniest one was at a show, I was in the jump off and cut too close to the wings of the wall and caught my foot. I came off and hit my head and I was apparently unconscious for 30 seconds or so but then I got up and started running after the horse away from the Paramedics who were trying to examine me.
 
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I was lunging my three year old 17.hh youngster when I looked over my shoulder to someone calling to me, as I did this I accidently let the lunge line slip through my fingers. My horse was cantering round loosely after having been in his Pessoa training aid, and was just letting off a bit of steam. When he realised he was being pursued by a blue lunge line he went mental and proceeded to gallop round the outdoor school like a lunatic, screaming to the other horses in the field. One corner of the school was a bit broken down and I realised he was going to jump it with the lunge line hanging. I thought he was going to be badly injured as the drop outside the sand school was about 3 ft. As he stood rearing and pawing at the rope I grabbed the end, whereupon he went from 0 to 60 mph from a standstill and jumped the fence out of the sandschool and catapulted me about 3 ft in the air ( I did not have time to let go of rope it happened so fast), where I landed awkwardly (the force of the acceleration being equivalent to that of a head on car collision so the surgeon said), smashing my pelvis and requiring 2 plates and nine titanium pins to hold it all together plus 4 months in a wheelchair.
I lost my job, lost my horse (had to sell him - he was completely unhurt) and as a consequence lost contact with all my family too, who regarded me as a liability due to my disablement (some family eh?).

I think I have a very short memory or am going senile as I have just bought another youngster!
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Lost your family
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Oh dear i think i might give my boys a day off tomorrow i knew i shouldn't have read this thread. You guys are so brave to keep riding after all those accidents
 
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