An 18-year-old man was critically injured Wednesday after falling from a horse carriage in Central Park, police said.According to New York ABC station WABC, witnesses said a family of four was getting into the carriage when the horse got spooked and took off.The unidentified 18-year-old victim was transported to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center after he fell from the horse around 2:47 p.m., police said.Photos from the scene showed the carriage flipped on its side.An 18-year-old man was transported to NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition after he fell from a horse carriage in Central Park on June 17, 2026, the NYPD said.WABCThe Transport Workers Union of America, the union representing the carriage horse drivers, said in a statement to ABC News Wednesday that the injured person was not one of its members.TWU Local 100 Administrative Vice President Alexander Kemp said in a statement that the union was deeply troubled by the incident and wished the victim a speedy recovery."[New York City's Department of Transportation] and NYPD are on scene investigating and we hope to learn more about what led to this unfortunate event," he said.An 18-year-old man was transported to NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition after he fell from a horse carriage in Central Park on June 17, 2026, the NYPD said.WABCNo other persons were injured, according to the police. The status of the horse was not immediately known.Wednesday's incident took place eight days after another horse died in the park while carrying passengers.On June 9, another horse, Deniz, that was carrying two passengers and a driver, collapsed and died during a ride in the park near East 90th Street. None of the people in the carriage were seriously injured.A necropsy released Tuesday by TWU, revealed before it died, the horse ate a Japanese yew, an ornamental plant that is toxic and deadly to horses, that was along the curb.Popular ReadsTWU pushed back against increased calls from groups, including the Central Park Conservancy, to ban horse-drawn carriages in the park."Poor Deniz died because the people running the Park Conservancy never warned anyone that there were deadly yew plants in the park," Alexander Kemp, TWU's administrative vice president, said in a statement Tuesday.The Central Park Conservancy said in a statement Wednesday that its thoughts are with the injured person.An 18-year-old man was transported to NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition after he fell from a horse carriage in Central Park on June 17, 2026, the NYPD said.WABC"That this frightening situation is just days after the previous one underscores the dangers posed by horse carriages to park visitors, carriage drivers, and the horses themselves," they said in a statement.Prior to Wednesday's incident, there have been seven carriage-horse-related incidents in the last 13 months within the park's vicinity, including one in January where a horse dashed into traffic and crashed into cars, according to the Central Park Conservancy.-ABC News' Matt Foster and Benjamin Stein contributed to this report.