VIDEO. Fifteen children injured in a pony outing: the circumstances of the accident become clearer

The accident, a group of children victim of a stampede with ponies, occurred at the end of the day, at the equestrian center of Saint-M’hervé, at a place called Haute-Hairie, next to Vitré (Ille-et-Vilaine), which hosts a summer camp with twenty-six children, aged 9 to 13. The accident occurred at the Haute-Hairie horse farm. | WEST-FRANCE Seventeen people, including the two supervisors, were evacuated to hospitals in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), Fougères, Vitré, Cesson-Sévigné, Saint-Grégoire and Pontchaillou. Among the victims, three children were, at midnight, transported in absolute emergency (evacuated to the South hospital, two of them by helicopters from Samu 35 and 49). Fourteen victims were in a state of relative emergency. 15 children injured in a stampede with ponies in Ille-et-Vilaine: what we know

This morning, Wednesday July 20, 2022, the gendarmes are closing access to the equestrian center. | WEST-FRANCE “On the way, one of the ponies turned around” According to the first elements of the investigation, specified this morning by the public prosecutor of Rennes, Philippe Astruc, “the children and two accompanying persons, took about twenty ponies to the field. On the way, one of the ponies, probably the lead one, turned around for some undetermined reason, followed by others. In their flight, the animals jostled and knocked down the group. »
The families have been notified by the equestrian center and the gendarmerie.
The investigation was entrusted by the Rennes prosecutor’s office to the Vitré Research Brigade. VIDEO. Fifteen children injured in a pony outing: the circumstances of the accident become clearerZOOM chevron_gauchechevron_droite