Video: Rodeo trail ride accident caught on video in front of horrified schoolchildren

KHOU reporter Lauren Tostenson captured the scene of an accident on the RodeoHouston trail ride Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 in which a horse-pulled wagon ran into a female horse rider, knocking her off her horse and causing her to get trampled. less KHOU reporter Lauren Tostenson captured the scene of an accident on the RodeoHouston trail ride Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 in which a horse-pulled wagon ran into a female horse rider, knocking her off her horse and ... more Photo: KHOU Photo: KHOU Image 1 of / 17 Caption Close Video: Rodeo trail ride accident caught on video in front of horrified schoolchildren 1 / 17 Back to Gallery

A trail rider was involved in a collision with a vehicle Friday in Bellaire as riders make their way into Houston for the annual Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

The incident happened about 12:15 p.m. in the 6900 block of South Rice near Linden Street in front of Condit Elementary, where the trail riders stop each year for a brief visit with schoolchildren.

As the procession stopped, for some unknown reason a wagon pulled my a team of horses spooked, according to Bellaire Police Chief Byron Holloway, and unexpectedly charged into two riders on horseback

The collision caused at least one horse and its female rider to fall. As the horse popped up, it stepped on its rider, who suffered several broken bones and was rushed to a nearby hospital, Holloway said.

Holloway said the the runaway wagon continued roughly another 200 feet before coming unhitched from its horses and plowing into the back of a Houston Police patrol car.

Children aboard the wagon were checked out for injuries, but none were found, Holloway said. The schoolchildren watching the scene were ushered back to class.

"When you're dealing with animals, especially horses, at the end of a long trail ride, who knows what made the horses do what they did," Hollway said.

The collision comes as hundreds of horseback riders converge on Memorial Park for the event, about seven miles from the scene of the incident.