Teenage Rodeo Rider Dies After Being Trampled During Performance in South Jersey

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That's the second one of these in two weeks.

Teenage Rodeo Rider Dies After Being Trampled During Performance in South Jersey

By NBC10 Staff and Wire Reports
Published at 1:32 PM EDT on May 29, 2016

A 19-year-old rodeo rider from central Pennsylvania died from injuries he sustained in an accident during a performance in South Jersey Saturday night.

Coy Lutz was riding a bareback horse when he fell and was trampled during his performance at the Cowtown Rodeo in Pilesgrove, Salem County, about 35 miles southwest of Philadelphia. He died a short time later at a hospital.

Lutz had just finished his freshman year at the University of Tennessee at Martin, where he competed on the rodeo team, according to a statement issued by the university on Sunday.

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1. Sad but these things happen. Been to a Cowtown event

Where a bullrider barely escaped with his life after the bull he was riding threw him off then tried to squash him to death.

It happens.

I've also been to Atco raceway and witnessed a super stock car burst into flames at the finish line killing the driver.

Thrills can kill, sad but true.

Condolences to this Coy Lutz's parents and family.