Terrible accident

Horse runs down man: insurance won’t pay

"Cevin" galloped into a container in which Matthias Eckmayer was sitting on May 3, 2023. The horse seriously injured the Lower Austrian.(Bild: Pressefoto Scharinger/Daniel Scharinger)

A horse crashes - see video - at full speed into a container at a horse show in Salzburg in May 2023, seriously injuring a man - and nobody is liable. How this is possible and how the desperate accident victim is doing physically and financially today... 

Matthias Eckmayer is desperate. On May 3, 2023, the 44-year-old from Lassee (Lower Austria) was sitting in a container at a major show jumping competition as a registration office manager. A terrible accident occurred in Lamprechtshausen at the time. The 600-kilo show horse "Cevin" belonging to an equestrian sports official from Carinthia refused to jump: it smashed through a fence and crashed through a door into the container in which the head of the registration office was sitting.