Soapbox drama after cart crashes at fun race
IT was a fun-filled charity event featuring rickety soapbox carts trying to negotiate tricky obstacles and ramps.
But this was the moment a contestant lost control and plunged into a tyre wall, before overturning and leaving his female passenger injured.
The cart crashed during a race at Livingston, West Lothian yesterday.
Emergency services were at the scene and the woman is said to have been taken to hospital with a suspected broken collar bone.
A witness said: ‘They went over one of the ramps, which looked about 2ft high. They then went around a bend and they clipped a tyre wall. The cart just completely overturned.
‘The driver managed to get out, but the woman was lying on the ground. She was conscious and the paramedics were attending to her.’
The event, the first of its kind in Livingston, was organised by Livingston Round Table social club.
One of the organisers, Ian Smith, said: ‘It’s a fantastic event, the last thing we want is for people to be hurt.’