Trampling at Hallaton bottle kicking event leaves woman unable to walk

A woman says she has been unable to walk after she was accidentally trampled by players who participate in an annual tradition of Easter Monday.

Alexie Winship said he was among the spectators who saw the event of Hallaton bottles in Lestershire, where players try to fight the wooden barrels through a field to win.

The 23 -year -old was caught in a scrum and seriously injured. In the hospital, it was discovered that he had suffered a neurological injury and bleeding in the spine, which has left it without feeling under his waist.

Mrs. Winship, who remains in the hospital, said she couldn’t remember much of what happened.

“I was on the outskirts [of the players]Just looking when a bear barrel flew in my direction, “said Winship Winship.

“I could leave the way. I was with friends who said they kicked me in my head, knocked out and then trampled.

“It was like a print. One of my friends took me out and I was illuminated in the hospital.”

The kick of bottles takes place in a field between the villages neighboring Hallaton and Medbourne. It has few rules, but that is when players can carry two or three barrels through a current return to their people.

Two of the “bottles” contain beer, while one is completely wood, painted red and white, and is known as the doll.

The organizers have said that the local legend suggested the event, preceded by a procession through Hallaton in which their cakes are scattered, can track their roots of 2,000 years.

Mrs. Winship told the BBC that she had planned to run a half marathon on Sunday, but her wounds had “thrown a key in process.”

He added that while I was a spectator, “he never intended” to get involved in the action.

“I can’t feel anything under my waist. I can’t walk,” he said.

“I don’t know what will happen and that is the frightening. I am an active person, in form and healthy.”

Mrs. Winship, who works in retail trade, has been told to recover, but that would be “something in the long term” and that he faced “months” using a wheelchair.

He added that he wanted people to be aware of the risks of attending the event.

“I was standing particularly close,” he said. “We were a few meters away, but it emerged so fast towards us.

“They [the players] We were looking at the barrel, not where they were going. I know it was an accident.

“Maybe Marshalls could have it safer.”

Phil Allan, president of the Bottle Kicking Organization Committee, said Mrs. Winship wanted a “complete recovery.”

He added that people were warned before the risks of entering the field.

“We do not want to hurt ourselves, but you receive a strange injury, it is a problem of age,” said Allan.

“We have seen all kinds of things, but you can’t gather it. It is an unpredictable event.

“We put posters around the field count that enter at their own risk, so they are warned. And we pay the ambulances and paramedics to attend in case someone hurts.”

The kick of bottles is not the only peculiar English tradition that comes with a risk of injuries.

The paramedics are displayed in the annual cheese event in Gloudeshire, where participants pursue a double 7 lb (3 kg) glukester for a steep hill of 200 yards, many stumbling blocks and falls as they advance.

It has also been required that doctors treat players hurting the duration of Royal Shrovetide football, which takes place annually in Ashbourne in Derbourne, since the Up’ards and Down’ards compete to move a ball to the opposite ends of the city.