Man killed after horse-drawn carriage bolts and flips near popular New York City tourist destination

An 18-year-old antheral was killed Wednesday aft a horse-drawn carriage became startled and bolted done New York City's Central Park earlier colliding with different carriage and overturning, according to the Central Park Conservancy.

A New York City Police Department (NYPD) spokesperson told Fox News Digital an "investigation remains ongoing."

Romanch Mahajan, an 18-year-old tourer visiting NYC from India, suffered the fatal injuries aft falling from the carriage during the day incidental adjacent Cherry Hill astatine West 72nd Street and West Drive.

Authorities said a horse-drawn carriage carrying passengers broke escaped and raced down West Drive earlier striking different carriage and flipping implicit adjacent Tavern connected the Green.

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Emergency responders stitchery astir an overturned horse-drawn carriage successful Central Park aft 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan was fatally injured erstwhile the carriage reportedly collided with different carriage and flipped over. (WNYW)

PIX11 News antecedently reported that Mahajan was transported to a section infirmary successful captious information pursuing the crash.

"We are perfectly devastated to larn that Romanch Mahajan, the 18-year-old visitant injured successful today's carriage incident, has died," a Central Park Conservancy spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "On behalf of everyone astatine the Central Park Conservancy, our deepest condolences spell retired to his household and loved ones during this unimaginable time."

Officials person not said what caused the equine to go spooked.

The fatal clang prompted renewed scrutiny of New York City's horse-drawn carriage industry, with some the national representing carriage drivers and the Central Park Conservancy calling for changes pursuing the incident.

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A presumption of Central Park successful Manhattan, N.Y., wherever 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan died aft a horse-drawn carriage overturned Wednesday. (iStock)

Alexander Kemp of TWU Local 100, the national representing horse-drawn carriage drivers and owners, said preliminary accusation alleges the operator whitethorn person stepped distant from the equine to instrumentality a photograph earlier the carnal took off.

"It appears the operator was astatine slightest astatine arm's magnitude from his equine to instrumentality a photograph of his passengers successful the carriage," Kemp told Fox News Digital successful an earlier statement. "This is unacceptable. A operator is not expected to permission the carriage to instrumentality photos – ever."

The national said it supports a afloat probe into the incidental and called for enhanced operator training, tougher examinations and further rules governing the instauration of caller horses into the business.

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The Central Park Conservancy, which has agelong opposed horse-drawn carriages successful the park, said Mahajan's decease underscored its concerns astir nationalist safety.

"This is the calamity we feared erstwhile we archetypal called past twelvemonth for equine carriages to beryllium banned from Central Park owed to the risks they airs to nationalist information and nationalist health," the spokesperson said.

"A young antheral came to bask our parkland and mislaid his life. That is not an acceptable outgo of an antiquated manufacture operating successful the mediate of 1 of the astir heavy utilized nationalist spaces successful America."

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A horse-drawn carriage travels done Central Park successful New York City successful 2024. An 18-year-old rider was killed Wednesday aft a carriage reportedly bolted and overturned successful the park. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, File)

The conservancy renewed its telephone for New York City officials to walk Ryder's Law, which would prohibition horse-drawn carriages and supply transitional occupation placement services for drivers.

"Every time equine carriages are successful the parkland is simply a time the information of New Yorkers and visitors is successful jeopardy," the spokesperson said.

According to the conservancy, Wednesday's clang was the eighth horse-related incidental successful and astir Central Park during the past 13 months.

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The incidental came conscionable days aft a carriage equine named Deniz collapsed and died adjacent West 72nd Street and West Drive portion pulling tourists done the park.

Another carriage reportedly overturned successful May aft a equine became spooked and struck a 2nd carriage.

Fox News Digital has reached to the NYPD and TWU Local 100 for further comment.