INDIANANPOLIS -
Statement released from the Indiana State Fair about the accident Sunday evening.
Prior to the 8-horse hitch competition at the Indiana State Fair, a stagecoach performing the pre-event entertainment tipped on its side while taking a turn.
Six people, including the driver, were aboard the coach. The five passengers, including the State Fair queen, were transported to Methodist Hospital with minor injuries. All are reported to be in stable condition.
The driver of the coach has more than 20 years of stagecoach driving experience and kept his team of six horses under control after the coach tipped. He was examined by the medical team on site and had no injuries.
The crowd on hand was asked to leave the Coliseum until the hitch competition began at 6:30 p.m.
Several people were hurt after a stagecoach overturned at the Indiana State Fair Sunday afternoon.
The coach was carrying four judges, a fair princess and the fair queen.
At least five people were transported to local hospitals with non-life threatening injuries after the accident. Sources tell Eyewitness News that the State Fair Queen is at the hospital is at the hospital being checked out but is not seriously injured.
The accident involved a six-horse coach making a figure-eight movement inside a ring inside the Pepsi Coliseum.
People in the stands rushed to the floor of the arena to help the injured.
The accident occurred the day before the one-year anniversary of a stage collapse at the fair that killed seven people and injured dozens of other people.
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