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By EverythingGP Staff

Chuckwagons

Driver injured in chuckwagon crash in Grande Prairie

Jun 3, 2024 | 5:15 PM

His family says in a social media post that wagon driver Gage Flad suffered some serious injuries in a wagon crash in Grande Prairie.

Gage was driving his wagon during the fourth heat on Sunday at the Grande Prairie Stompede. He fell out of the wagon going into turn 1 shortly after the wagons left the infield.

The post from his dad Troy says Gage has a broken neck with a spinal injury, four broken toes on his left foot, plus cuts and bruises.

The younger Flad was airlifted to Edmonton for treatment.

The post goes on to say that Gage was asking how his horses were doing. Two of them had cuts that were not serious, the rest were ok.

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Gage Flad is from Warburg, Alberta and in his third year as a permit driver with the World Professional Chuckwagon Association. He will turn 22 years old in July.

The Grande Prairie Stompede says in its own social media post that it is sending “thoughts, love, and well wishes” to Gage and his family.

The WPCA says in an email to EverythingGP that Flad was in stable condition as of Sunday night and was awaiting surgery Monday morning.