FALMOUTH – A horseback rider was seriously injured in Falmouth around 1:30 PM Tuesday. Rescuers were called to the scene off Carriage Shop Road at Duckie’s Way. A MedFlight helicopter was unable to respond due to weather so the victim was transported to St. Luke’s Hospital trauma center in New Bedford. Further details were not immediately available.
Falmouth Fire/Rescue/CWN
Update: Falmouth Fire-Rescue reports that this afternoon they responded to a call for a person injured from a fall off a horse on the Town of Falmouth Fresh Pond Well Site property on Carriage Shop Road near Duckies Way. With limited access to the area, Fire Crews used an off-road vehicle to safely extricate the patient from the wooded area. The patient was transported to an off-Cape Trauma Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
