A WOMAN has been airlifted to hospital after being thrown from her horse onto a gate.
The Great North Air Ambulance Service airlifted the 45-year-old woman from farmland near Thornton-le-Street, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, after being called at about 1pm.
The woman had been out riding when the horse bolted, throwing her onto a gate.
She sustained serious chest injuries in the incident and needed rapid transportation to a major trauma centre, a spokesman for the air ambulance said.
She was flown to the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.
The flight took eight minutes.
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