A London police officer was injured on Saturday when a horse taking part in King Charles III’s Coronation Procession went out of control and reared back into a crowd-control barrier, New York Post reported.

During today’s coronation of the British King Charles the Third, an agitated horse, which was part of the royal procession, ran into the audience watching the event on the streets of London pic.twitter.com/29RXPOwK2e

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The incident occurred as the royal couple’s carriage was on its way to Buckingham Palace after the coronation ceremony inside Westminster Abbey.

Spectators scrambled to get out of the path of the nervous animal as the metal barrier collapsed.