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Woman Flown To Hospital After Falling Off Horse In Discovery Bay

DISCOVERY BAY (CBS SF) -- A 60-year-old woman was flown to a Walnut Creek hospital Sunday afternoon after suffering injuries from an apparent fall from a horse, East Contra Costa Fire Protection District firefighters said.

Paramedics were called to Azure Court at about 2 p.m. Sunday, where they met the woman who had fallen.

She was taken a short distance to the Discovery Bay Country Club parking lot where she was loaded onto a helicopter for the trip to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, firefighters said.

The woman suffered a non-life-threatening hip injury, firefighters said.

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