Horse rider airlifted to hospital after fall in Staffordshire
A rider has been airlifted to hospital after falling from her horse in Cannock Wood.
The woman fell of the horse near Holly Hill Road at just before 3.20pm this afternoon.
An ambulance, together with the Midlands Air Ambulance from Tatenhill attended the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: "Ambulance crews had to negotiate difficult terrain to reach a woman who had fallen from a horse.
"The patient, believed to be in her forties, was treated for lower back injuries. She had to be carried for some distance through dense woodland to a field where the air ambulance had landed.
"The woman was immobilised with the use of a neck collar and placed on a spinal board as a precaution.
"She was also given pain relief before being airlifted to the Royal Stoke University Hospital for further assessment and treatment."
