Two of the people who were injured in Tuesday night's crash between a horse-drawn carriage and a Mustang have been transferred to the University of Virginia Medical Center.

Officials say the two were taken from Page Memorial Hospital for internal fractures.

Police say the lights on the carriage were working at the time of the crash. They also say the driver of the Mustang, 23-year-old John Anderson of Stanley, became distracted while he tried to open a soda.

The Stanley Police Department says a group from the Seventh Day Adventist Church was riding around town singing carols at the time.

Fourteen of the carolers, many of whom were children, were taken to the hospital as a result.

None of the injuries were life threatening, but Helen Freeze was flown to the Winchester Medical Center for treatment.

The other people were taken to Page Memorial Hospital, though two were transferred to UVA Wednesday.

Twelve-year-old Spencer Stoneberger was one of the people who was treated and released from PMH. A friend had just finished singing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."

"I didn't actually see the car. I remember hearing it hit. And I woke up on the floor," says Stoneberger.

Police say the horses pulling the carriage got scared. They pulled it another 300 feet to a telephone pole.

Stoneberger says he blacked out during all of that.

When he regained consciousness, he says, "My lower back was hurting and my head. I hit it on the metal bar behind it."

He still wasn't sure what had happened.

"I realized that we were hit. But I thought we just crashed. I didn't know that we had gotten hit by a car until we got to the hospital," says Stoneberger.

Stanley Police Chief Timothy Foster spent Wednesday morning trying to confirm why the crash happened.

"At nighttime, of course visibility diminishes. And we have to pay extra attention. And it's just one of those things where that actually didn't happen," says Foster.

Foster says alcohol and drugs were not a factor.

"This certainly could have turned out to be a tragedy. And, thank God it wasn't worse than what it was. Unfortunately, people were injured, but thank God nobody was killed," says Foster.

Police say Anderson has been charged with reckless driving, but there are no additional charges pending in the case.

There was disagreement Tuesday night about whether lights on the carriage were working before the crash. State police ran a test and found those lights were indeed lit.