{"id":4728,"date":"2026-04-02T20:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/4728\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:16:08","slug":"girl-on-horse-drawn-carriage-killed-in-truck-crash-on-dual-carriageway-news-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/4728\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl on horse-drawn carriage killed in truck crash on dual-carriageway | News UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"646\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_291834779-7159-e1775152575961.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-27831274\" alt=\"girl killed in horse-and-cart collision Picture: facebook\" decoding=\"sync\"\/><br \/>\n\t\tRita who is having surgery according to family is pictured with her 3-year-old daughter Ka (Picture: Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>Tributes have been paid to a three-year-old girl killed after her horse-drawn cart was struck by a tipper truck, killing her father and critically injuring her mother.<\/p>\n<p>Ka Connors, 3, was sitting inbetween her mother Rita and father Francie as they rode the pony and trap on the A228 near Tonbridge, Kent at 6.25pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The carriage was struck by a white DAF tipper truck being driven on the southbound carriageway in the same direction.<\/p>\n<p>The driver has been arrested after the crash between the junctions of Bandridges Road and Hale Street.<\/p>\n<p>The pony was killed at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSign up for all of the latest stories\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Start your day informed with Metro&#8217;s <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/newsletters\/news-updates\/?signup-source=news-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News Updates<\/a> newsletter or get <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/newsletters\/breaking-news?ito=news-article&amp;?signup_source=news-article-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking News<\/a> alerts the moment it happens. <\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old driver of the truck is still in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"1005\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_291834860-c417-e1775152828317.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-27831278\" alt=\"girl killed in horse-and-cart collision Picture: facebook https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1478561870304701&amp;set=pb.100044527060269.-2207520000\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t\tFamily are asking for prayers for Rita after her husband Francie Connors was killed in the collision (Picture: Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"587\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_291831179-8e50-e1775149253402.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-27830706\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t\tThe horror collision took place last night on the A228 Boyle Way near East Peckham (Picture: Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>Celebrity Big Brother winner Paddy Doherty led tributes to the members of his extended family.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2018Listen to this travesty. A cousin of mine went for a drive on a back road.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He\u2019s driving his cart down the road with his wife and his little child in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_291828381-e86e.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-27829908\" alt=\"A228 Boyle Way near East Peckham (Picture: Google)\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t\tA228 Boyle Way near East Peckham (Picture: Google)<\/p>\n<p>\u2018They are driving along and out comes a juggernaut and runs into him. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Kills the horse, kills young Francie and kills the little baby, 3 years of age. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018The mum is critically ill in hospital. They brought her in a helicopter to another hospital for brain surgery. Please see it in your heart and soul and pray she pulls through it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018She still has three little boys but her husband is dead. The girl is a little princess. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018I pray to God that he will leave the mother behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I hope the police get to the bottom of it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Kent Police are appealing for witnesses or anyone who saw the truck, or the pony and trap before the crash to contact 101.<\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\">Arrow<br \/>\nMORE: <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/04\/02\/google-maps-update-shows-late-bus-going-27827919\/?ico=more_text_links\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Maps update shows you how late your bus is going to be<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\">Arrow<br \/>\nMORE: <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/04\/02\/honest-review-new-london-hotel-no-keys-windowless-rooms-27781877\/?ico=more_text_links\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">An honest review of the new London hotel with no keys and windowless rooms<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\">Arrow<br \/>\nMORE: <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/04\/01\/scammers-using-ebay-sell-50-000-beach-huts-dont-27803582\/?ico=more_text_links\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The scammers using eBay to sell \u00a350,000 beach huts they don\u2019t own<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"metro-button share-bar-comments\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tComment now<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tComments<br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" class=\"metro-button share-bar-preferred-source\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tAdd as preferred source<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tNews Updates<\/p>\n<p>Stay on top of the headlines with daily email updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rita who is having surgery according to family is pictured with her 3-year-old daughter Ka (Picture: Facebook) Tributes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2740,173,2741,309,2742,18,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-crash","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-horse","11":"tag-kent","12":"tag-kent-police","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116336956831631662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}