By ANEEKA SIMONIS
PARAMEDICS were called out to Garfield North and three other Victorian properties to treat women injured in horse accidents on Thursday 7 January.
Each were hospitalised as a result of their injuries.
At 10.30am, paramedics were called to a woman aged in her 50s after she fell from a horse at a property in Garfield North.
She sustained bruising to her head and neck and was transferred to Casey Hospital in a stable condition.
Later that day, paramedics were called out to treat a woman in her 40s whose injured ankle was stepped on by a spooked horse in Bangholme.
At about 4.30pm, the woman injured her ankle as she stepped into a hole on the property.
The incident spooked a nearby horse which then stepped on the same foot.
She was taken to Dandenong Hospital in a stable condition.
Another woman with serious pelvis, leg and abdominal injuries caused by a fall in Darnum did not receive medical help for three hours after the accident.
Ambulance Victoria reported the woman aged in her 40s fell from a horse at about 5pm. It was up to three hours before she was found and airlifted to the Alfred hospital in a serious condition.
Another woman in her 50s sustained spinal injuries as a result of a fall which occured at 9am in Colac. She was transferred by road to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition.
