{"id":420733,"date":"2026-05-10T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/420733\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:00:11","slug":"woman-who-suffered-horrific-horse-riding-accident-dies-after-year-long-recovery-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/420733\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who suffered \u2018horrific\u2019 horse riding accident dies after year-long recovery fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">She suffered a broken C2 vertebra, a T3-T4 dislocation, bent spine and four fractured ribs, leaving her \u201cparalysed from the breast down\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">In a post on Facebook today, her family announced that she died from a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt is with much sadness that I have to advise you all that Lauren died last night from a heart attack,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSt John responders worked so [hard] to try and save her but it was not to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Since the accident, Simpson had been determined to ride again. The Givealittle page, launched to help fund the modified disability saddle and riding hoist she needed, had raised more than $6400.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNow I am a paraplegic with a passion to continue riding for physical and mental health reasons,\u201d she wrote on the page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201c&#8230; what keeps me motivated and working to heal, is the idea of one day being able to get back on my horse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She suffered a broken C2 vertebra, a T3-T4 dislocation, bent spine and four fractured ribs, leaving her \u201cparalysed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,74,51,1863,6179,7126,15124,40371,42,5838,31144,14568,4479,43,93348,1881,31124,110762,31145,40,38,41,39,1299,1354,379,216078],"class_list":["post-420733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-back","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-fight","tag-fundraiser","tag-headlines","tag-help","tag-horrific","tag-horse","tag-launching","tag-news","tag-paralysed","tag-recovery","tag-riding","tag-saddle","tag-suffered","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-who","tag-woman","tag-year","tag-yearlong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}