A serious accident occurred in Greding, Middle Franconia.
A man is seriously injured in hospital.
His horses could only be recovered dead.
Greding - In
Greding
in
Central Franconia
, in the Roth district, there was a serious
carriage accident
.
One man was seriously injured.
Two horses drowned
in the Schwarzach river.
Carriage accident: man seriously injured - his horses drown in a river
The operator of the stud tried on Sunday to harness the horses in front of the carriage when they broke loose, as the
police announced
.
The man was either run over by the carriage or overrun by the horses.
He was
seriously injured and taken to a hospital
.
The police initially gave no information about the age of the man.
The
horses
had meanwhile run towards a nearby river and fell into it.
Both horses drowned.
Fire department divers
tried to locate the carriage and the horses, but initially could only find one horse.
The horse was rescued from the water with a crane.
(dpa)