The death of 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan, an Indian teen, falling from a Central Park horse carriage, strengthened calls to end the horse carriage industry as there have been eight horse-related incidents in Central Park over the past 13 months but this was the first human fatality involving a horse carriage since they were introduced in Central Park more than 150 years ago. There have already been calls to suspend horse carriages as they are a public safety hazard in crowded areas and have already been suspended in other US cities like Chicago and San Antonia.

Video showed the horse sprinting through the park as two people appeared to jump from the four-wheeled carriage

The teen was critically injured after falling from a horse carriage and was later pronounced dead at the hospital, police said.