A young person was taken to hospital by STARS Air Ambulance after a horse drawn wagon ended up in a ditch.

Police say about 20 young people were riding in the horse drawn wagon on a grid road just off Highway 247 in the Round Lake area when the two horses became spooked and took off.

The wagon crossed into a ditch and ended up in a treed area, causing a number of the passengers to be injured.

One person was taken to hospital by STARS with a potentially serious injury, 15 other people were either treated at the scene or taken to local hospital with minor injuries. Nine people have now been discharged from hospital.

The kids were on the wagon ride at Camp Mckay, a four day family camp on the Ochapwace First Nation.

“They were coming at a fairly good speed and another car pulled out and spooked the horses at which point they ran into the tree,” said Denise Beaudin the interim director of operations for the Ochapowace First Nation. “This is the first event that’s ever happened where we’ve had an incident like this.”

Camp Mckay has made counselling available to both those involved and their families.

Beaudin also says that the First Nation will also review their emergency plan and look for a way to try to prevent future accidents.

Based on a report by Cole Davenport.