Woman bucked off horse, airlifted to hospital with back injuries

Woman bucked off horse, airlifted to hospital with back injuries

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OGDEN — One woman was airlifted to McKay-Dee Hospital Saturday after she was bucked off a horse in unincorporated Weber County.

The Weber Fire District said authorities received a 911 call from a man who was riding with the woman in the Middle Fork area when she was bucked off and landed on a rock. Various battalions responded along with a medical helicopter, the Weber County Sheriff's Office, the Department of Natural Resources and search and rescue teams.

The woman was located from the air and ground crews reached her; she had sustained "significant injuries to her back," they determined.

Today E65 and MA65 received a 911 call from a male individual that was horseback riding with A female in the middle Fork...

Posted by Weber Fire District on Saturday, May 2, 2020

She was carried about 200 yards to the helicopter and flown to the hospital.

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