It was an incident that appalled and concerned the watching public. Terrified horses from the Household Cavalry bolting through London at rush hour, But how, and why, did it happen?
It was an incident that appalled and concerned the watching public in equal measure. Terrified horses from the Household Cavalry bolting through London at rush hour, causing mayhem and injury, one of them covered in blood.
To carry out the work, contractors must use a sort of conveyor belt to take rubble up from below ground level and then transport it, several feet above head height, across the pavement. It's then dumped into a lorry owned by a firm called A40 Grab Hire. Advertisement She then crashes into a row of scooters and e-bikes, falling to the ground and cutting her chest, before getting up and following the other horses past the embassies of Malaysia, Turkey and Trinidad and Tobago, where they leave hoof-marks in the Tarmac.
'The horses were injured obviously from the glass that they had broken. was laying there on the ground. He looked like he hurt himself pretty bad. It was terrible.'A security guard from a nearby store told reporters: 'Unfortunately the soldier was thrown off and got trampled on. The horse ran off covered in blood.''Everybody panicked and started screaming. It sounded like a car crash.
At the end of the Strand, Quaker collides with a taxi next to a coffee shop as stunned passers-by look onBoth animals continue down Fleet Street, hitting a pedestrian on the corner of Chancery Lane. An ambulance is called and the person is taken to hospital.The two horses are spotted again at Tower Bridge, where an astonished driver photographs the galloping duo, and then reappear at 8.55am, near St George's Leisure Centre, Shadwell.
It was something of a miracle that none of the four soldiers unseated during Wednesday's incident appear to have suffered serious injuries.One was completely unharmed, another swiftly discharged after being taken to hospital. The remaining two were kept in overnight for monitoring, in keeping with the precautionary protocol for anyone who has received a head injury.Two of the four who bolted but were initially recovered are said to be fine.
The headline-prone American animal rights outfit PETA put up a spokesman to argue on TV that the incident ought to lead to the abolition of not only mounted military regiments but also police horses, saying: 'Unlike humans, horses don't choose to be in the military or the police.' The regiment keeps around 220 horses, with 150 or so in London where they exercise each morning in and around Hyde Park. The remainder are either stabled in Windsor or Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, though they enjoy occasional summer holidays and were last year photographed galloping along a beach in East Lothian.
To fans, the regiment performs a vital duty at key ceremonial events and provides a significant tourist attraction. Commanding officer of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Lt Col Matt Woodward, has come in for criticism Members of the Life Guards Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment training for the Trooping the Colour for the King's Birthday Parade in London last year
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