Running of the Bulls Panic Injures Cherry Hill Man

A Cherry Hill man was among those injured so far in this year’s running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, according to a report from AFP.

Attorney Peter Milligan, 42, wasn’t gored, however—he broke his ankle when runners panicked and knocked him down after one of a dozen bulls broke loose from the pack near the bullring in the northern Spanish city on Thursday.

"I heard it, it sounded like a tree falling, it cracked,” Milligan told AFP. “At first I thought I was fine, but as soon as I started to walk on it, I knew something was wrong."

Milligan’s injury happened midway through the annual San Fermin festival, which features seven days of bull runs through a twisting, 875-meter course—a little more than half a mile—over cobblestoned streets from the pens to the bullring.

About 2,000 runners per day—3,500 on weekends—take part in the runs, according to Pamplona officials, with about 200 to 300 getting injured every year. Only a fraction of those—about 3 percent—are seriously hurt, officials claim.

Fifteen people have died in the runs since 1910—nearly all by goring—when records began to be kept in Pamplona. The last person killed was Daniel Jimeno Romero, 27, a Spanish man who was gored to death in the run’s Telfonica section, a 100-meter funnel just before the bullring.